A Great Great Aunt wrote down the family information years ago. Selig Dudelczak, son of Samuel Harry (Schmuel Hersh) Dudelczak and Gertrude ...

Happy New Year! In 1942 Woody Guthrie wrote these 33 New Year Rulin's . For those stuck on writing resolutions, there are some good o...

Several years ago I discovered the divorce complaint  from my grandmother's second or third husband. The marriage lasted less than three...

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

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

The following poem by Leah Rachel Clara Yoffie appears in Contemporary Verse, Volume 9 (1920), p. 144 , as well as the St. Louis weekly ne...

December 1937 advertisement. From The Modern View , a local community newspaper. Edward Louis Oxenhandler was the brother-in-law of ...

In an online family tree, I found two alleged photographs of my great grandfather, Melvin Van Every. I communicated with the owner of the tr...

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

Caption for photo to left: Human Statue of Liberty. 18,000 Officers and Men at Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa. Colonel William Newman, Command...

It's been a year since Ancestry released their We're Related mobile app. The app has identified 151 celebrities who might be relat...

Repost with slight changes Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day . The Jewish New Year begins tomorrow night at sundown. What wo...

Happy Labor Day Weekend As you light up your barbecues this weekend and enjoy your day off from work Monday (those who have the day off) -...

Below is the poem which won 3rd place in the Poetry & Song category of the 2017 ISFHWE Excellence-in-Writing Competition . Last year, I ...

Yesterday I received the below press release from Tina Sansone, Competition Coordinator at  The International Society of Family History Writ...

It is almost a certainty that the surnames Cruvant/Kruvant/Kruvand/Kruvant come from the Lithuanian town of Krūvandai. We have traced ancest...

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

Last week I mentioned that I had switched genealogy database software to MyHeritage's FamilyTreeBuilder . Thursday, MyHeritage announced...

There is a huge debate over how to pronounce the letter “G” in the acronym "GIF." GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format, and ...

Back in 2007  I downloaded a trial version of iFamily genealogy software, and fell in love with it. Despite some deficiencies in reports an...