Leonard Nimoy, Actor, Director, and Photographer, passed away yesterday February 27, 2015. He was known best for playing the role of Spock, ...

When a family historian is looking at ancestral documents it is important to give consideration to the other names one finds in the document...

I’ve mentioned before that error-free genealogy is impossible , no matter how careful one is. But with care, we can limit our mistakes. ...

George Washington's Birthday is celebrated as a federal holiday on the third Monday in February. It is one of eleven permanent holidays...

The National Genealogical Society is holding their annual conference in May ten miles from my home. I have never been to a Genealogy Con...

My wife and I were watching Tuesday night’s episode of Genealogy Roadshow last night, and in general I enjoyed it. I’m especially pleased w...

This is just to note that two pages have been updated on this blog 1) Selected Posts I created the Selected Posts page back in January o...

MyHeritage announced they had a free Mac version of their Family Tree Builder database software, so I decided to download it and give it a ...

I wrote this poem five years ago. George Van Every, the first son of my second great grandparents, Samuel and Abigail (Stuart) Van Every, ...

Image Source:  Office of Biological and Environmental Research  of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. I've seen sev...

My 2nd great grandfather, Moshe Leyb Cruvant, was born on June 12, 1858, according to Lithuanian records. His St. Louis, Missouri death...

In order to properly record a date from a document, you might need to know some geographical history. My paternal immigrant ancestors came...

Khanike* begins this year on Tuesday night, December 16th. I thought I'd share some music to help people get in the mood. ...

Crestleaf - a genealogical database - is sponsoring a surname challenge  to compose a creative post using their surname database. I think t...

Below are several poems for the holiday Gratitude - by Edgar A. Guest (©1917) Be grateful for the kindly friends that walk along your wa...

Ancestry updated their DNA interface by eliminating a large number of false positive matches, and adding a new feature called DNA Circles. ...