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Friday, June 23, 2017

Seeking Advice on Searching Newspaper Archives When The Hits Are Numerous

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So a local weekly newspaper has recently uploaded 55 years of newspapers to Newspapers.com. That's 2860 issues. Simple surname search...
Monday, June 19, 2017

Amanuensis Monday: Harold Newmark and the 101st Airborne - 1950

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my  project  to trans...
Friday, June 9, 2017

Frederick Fulkerson (1759-1824) and Elizabeth Pottinger

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Frederick Fulkerson (1759-1824) is one of my wife's fifth great grandfathers. The phrase "Frederick married to Elizabeth POTTINGE...
Monday, June 5, 2017

Amanuensis Monday: Anton Schrock on Grape Culture in Bollinger County Missouri in 1880

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my  project  to trans...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

The ancestor who moved the farthest

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Randy Seaver at Geneamusings asks: Which of your ancestors moved the farthest from home? Of course, I first think about my ancestors who i...
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Friday, June 2, 2017

Tech Tip: Making your Blog/Website more Accessible

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How accessible is your blog/website? Is the color/size/font of your text readable to everyone? Can someone click a button and have the text...
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Monday, May 29, 2017

Amanuensis Monday: The Wedding of Virginia Ellen Cruvant and Ronald Ruben Zimmerman

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my  project  to trans...
Saturday, May 27, 2017

Memorial Day - 2017

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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 ...
Monday, May 22, 2017

Ancestry "We're Related" Mobile App and Private Ancestors

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I haven't blogged for awhile about Ancestry.com's mobile "We're Related" app for finding celebrity kin. Shortly after ...

Amanuensis Monday: The Wedding of Wallace Kamerman and Lillian Rosenblatt - 1952

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my  project  to transc...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Descendants of Ben and Goldie (White) Cruvant

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I've mentioned previously my research into the children of Ben Cruvant (my great grandmother's brother) and his first wife, Goldie. ...
Monday, May 15, 2017

Amanuensis Monday: Harry and Grace Feinstein, 1930-1935

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my  project  to transc...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Happy Mother's Day - 2017

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We wouldn't be who we are today without the loving mothers in our lives - past and present. Here are the eight female ancestors (besid...
Monday, May 1, 2017

Amanuensis Monday: The Wedding of Allen Deutsch and Jean Colyar - 1943

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my  project  to trans...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Wordless Wednesday - Mr. Newmark, Thermowear Representative

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Source: St. Louis Post Dispatch, Oct 27, 1957 Other sources indicate the individual demonstrating Thermowear was a Marvin Newmark fro...
Monday, April 24, 2017

Amanuensis Monday: An Unknown Relative Sold His Car in Detroit in 1924

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my  project  to trans...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Ten Years - Ten Discoveries

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I’ve been researching and blogging about genealogy since April of 2007. Ten years. Below are ten of my most significant research discoveries...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

DNA by the Numbers

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My DNA - Ancestry.com (as of April 2017) • 67% European Jewish • 11% Western Europe • 3% Ireland • 2% Italy/Greece • 2% Eastern Europe...
Monday, April 17, 2017

Amanuensis Monday: Myrtle Van Every Dines in Gasconade County - 1934

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my  project  to trans...
Thursday, April 6, 2017

New FTDNA ethnicities

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FamilyTreeDNA updated their DNA ethnicity guesses. (Yes, guesses, the science behind them is nowhere near exact) My current breakdown i...