Ancestry last week  updated the ethnicity breakdowns on their DNA tests.  Some received their update a month ago in a small 'beta previ...

Blog Action Day is a "free annual event, that has run since 2007. Its aim is to unite the world’s bloggers by posting about the same ...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my project to transcr...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my project to transcr...

Repost with slight changes Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day . The Jewish New Year began two weeks ago. What would be an app...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my project to transcr...

I've been busy lately with purchasing a home, packing, etc. I hope to return to writing for this blog soon. For the Labor Day holiday, I...

Blog Action Day is a "free annual event, that has run since 2007. Its aim is to unite the world’s bloggers by posting about the same...

I was looking at the marriage license application for some distant cousins, and it appeared that the uncle of the groom signed the document ...

If everything goes according to plan...and the puzzle pieces are coming together...my wife and I will be moving to a new home in a month. ...

Tu b'Av is a relatively obscure Jewish holiday that falls on the fifteenth day of the month of Av (sundown Sunday, July 21 to sundown M...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my project to transcr...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my project to transcr...

Back in 2010 C-Span uploaded almost its entire video library - covering 23 years, and they have added to it since then. All accessible onlin...

Happy Independence Day! The New Colossus Emma Lazarus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from ...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my project to transcr...

It had been awhile since I used Ancestry's "New Search" so since "Old Search" is going to disappear soon, I started ...

In the Jewish tradition, the Torah (aka “The Pentateuch” or “The Five Books of Moses”) is divided into weekly readings. The same passage is ...

Google Reader disappears on Monday As they announced back in March  the Google Reader app will be retired on July 1st. At the time I said...

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my project to transcr...