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...

A Toast to the First and the Fourth of July for David Van Every (1757-1820) ©July 2009 - John Newmark For two years my fourth great foug...

100 Years ago today, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot by Gavrilo Princip . Where were my ancestors on June 28, 1914? Newmarks/Cruvants ...

A relative my mother has been in contact with for a few years hasn't responded to emails recently. When she tried the phone number she h...

Happy Father's Day to my father, grandfathers, great grandfathers, great great grandfathers, etc LtoR: Melvin L. Newmark, Barney Ne...

A post on what Memorial Day is for, besides barbecues. The above image comes from a past version of the Memorial Day page at the US Dep...

Obituaries can be great resources for filling in both recent and past generations of branches of your family tree, but one has to be very ca...

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

Discuss a surname and mention its origins, its geographical location(s) and how it fits into your genealogy research. Hartley Hartley is...

Holidays on May 1st May Day   which has its traditional origins in the Celtic holiday of  Beltane  and the Germanic holiday of  Walpurgis...

The Midnight Ride of William Dawes  - by Helen F Moore (1896) I am a wandering, bitter shade, Never of me was a hero made; Poets have ne...

Bill West of West In New England  recently announced the Second Geneabloggers' Just Make Up the Lyrics Challenge  1. Set the names of ...

As I mentioned a month ago, my wife and I are in the process of adopting twin boys, so I've wondered a little bit about other adopted ch...

Every year on St. Patrick's Day I've blogged about the Irish ancestry of my great grandfather, Barney Newmark. I was named after him...

My wife and I are in the process of adopting twin boys. Many questions have popped into my mind over the past few weeks, and one of them i...

I haven't participated in SepiaSaturday since May, but I thought I would return to the meme. They provide a weekly prompt for bloggers ...

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...

Caption for photo to left: Human Statue of Liberty. 18,000 Officers and Men at Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa. Colonel William Newman, Comma...