Third in a series of posts. A discussion of assumptions one might be tempted to make. With examples taken from my own research. Assumpti...

Second in a series of posts. A discussion of assumptions one might be tempted to make. With examples taken from my own research. Assumpt...

I was looking at the entry for one of my wife's ancestors on somebody else's Ancestry Family Tree. As you can see, the person enter...

First in a series of posts. A discussion of assumptions one might be tempted to make. With examples taken from my own research. Assumpti...

Randy Seaver at GeneaMusings , for his weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun , asked: How Many Sarah LNU's Are in Your Genealogy Databas...

For the Labor Day holiday, I thought I'd reshare the below poems and music. For those uncertain as to the origins and intent of this h...

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

My wife and I were watching the Who Do You Think You Are episode with Valerie Bertinelli.   Ms. Bertinelli learned she had King Edward...

  Belle "Sissie" (Feinstein) Newmark - August 14, 1914 - Oct 11, 2002   Today my grandmother would have turned 100. Below a...

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...

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...