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

Several months ago I discovered Dreams in the Mist: Loyalist House Season I by Barbara Nattress The short novel (156 pages) concerns a w...

I found the below news story in the  St. Louis Post-Dispatch archives  and considered it for my Amanuensis Monday series. But further resear...

When the family history blogger is unsure what to write about, there is always the ever-popular Top Ten List. Here is my Top Ten Top Ten Lis...

I had a chance to conduct some more microfilm research recently at the local library. I am slowly going through archives for The Modern View...

Benedict Cumberbatch and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are related  Ancestry.com researchers recently announced. Common Ancestor: John of Gaunt (...

Happy New Year In 2016 I wrote 86 blog posts. Slightly over 7 a month, about 1.6 a week. This is still significantly less than what I wa...

As a kid I believe I knew four Hanuka songs: Maoz Tzur (Rock of Ages) Who Can Retell Oh Hanukah, Oh Hanukah The Dreidel Song Of those...

The footnoteMaven  is continuing her annual tradition of hosting Blog Caroling . So my fellow GeneaBloggers, I challenge each of you to bl...

The marriage document I shared last week was written in Old Russian. I received the below information from a translator: Międzyrzec [Podl...

I've written several times about converting calendar dates from Julian to Gregorian, and how part of Poland switched from Gregorian to J...

The below image comes from JewishGen 's Polish archives - in particular: (Miedzyrzec Podlaski PSA Births, Deaths 1869-1901,09-11,13,14 ...

The latest celebrity kin Ancestry's mobile app has suggested for me is Elvis Presley. This interests me primarily since this is the firs...

It’s been two weeks since the software glitch that reinitialized my We’re Related celebrity connections. I haven’t heard back from the cust...

Was at the library in the microfilm section browsing issues of the St. Louis Modern View from 1915 and saw this cover page. I figured no com...

(See bottom of post for sources and notes) December Holidays and Observances Month-long observances (US) National Impaired Driving Pre...

Highlights from news stories and blog posts I have read in the past week that deal with my overlapping interests in Genealogy, History, Heri...

Saturday I checked my Ancestry We’re Related app and was told I had 0 celebrity matches. Here’s the chart of 40 celebrity matches I had...

Highlights from news stories and blog posts I have read in the past week that deal with my overlapping interests in Genealogy, History, Heri...

Gary Boyd Roberts (GBR), NEHGS researcher, in his article,   #22 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Notable Descendants of th...