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

My Great-Grandfather, Barney Newmark, celebrated his birthday on March 17th, and claimed to have been born in Dublin, Ireland. It's si...

Ockham's Razor  is the problem-solving principle that, when presented with competing hypothetical answers to a problem, one should sele...

Back in 2016 I blogged about the possibility of a Van Every Surname Non-Paternity Event.  Several researchers have questioned the parentage ...

When I began researching, all I could find on my ancestral surname, Dudelsack, was the German bagpipe. Later, once I realized 'Dudel...

I wrote most of the below in 2016, but I put it aside, confused by the information I had. Now I know more.  Several years ago I shared a p...

Below is the 1900 census record for my second great grandfather, Selig Feinstein. He is actually recorded as Samuel Feinstein. In a city di...

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

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...