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...

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...

It's been almost two weeks since the conference. Reflecting, the conference was a lot of fun, and educational. It's a shame that the...

Below is my annual post for Memorial Day Weekend. A post on what Memorial Day is for, besides barbecues. The above image comes from a ...

Friday, May 15 -  NGS Family History Conference Tired from the first two days of the conference, I took things a bit more slowly. When I a...

Today was Day Two of the  National Genealogical Society's Family History Conference . I arrived shortly before 8am for my first sessio...

Today was Day One of the National Genealogical Society's Family History Conference After dropping our children off at daycare, I arr...

The National Genealogical Society Conference is next week – May 13-16 in St. Charles, Missouri. While the official activities begin on Wed...

It appears that Ancestry.com  has different plans depending upon whether you are a new subscriber or upgrading a current account. This isn...

The National Genealogical Society Conference  is less than a month away, so I have been looking at the online Program Guide  and trying to d...

It's National Library Week so I thought I would update a post I wrote in 2012 I conduct a lot of genealogy research from the comfort ...

I think the people at Geni  have played one two many games of Degrees of Kevin Bacon and are confused about what it means to be related. ...

Happy Tartan Day ! Today is the 695th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath. The Declaration of Arbroath is the Declaration of Scot...

Corned Beef and Cabbage on Rye To the left is a bio my great-grandfather Barney Newmark submitted to the North St. Louis Businessman...

I received an email on Monday from the National Genealogical Society: It began: Congratulations! You have been accepted as a member of t...

"Who Do You Think You Are?" returns to TLC on Sunday with a new season of celebrity genealogies. The eight guests scheduled for th...

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