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Thursday, June 6, 2019

D-Day Plus 75 Years

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Today marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day The closest relative I have found involved in the D-Day invasion was Arnold Burton Kruvant, ...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

National Genealogical Society Conference 2019

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Four years ago, the National Genealogical Society Family History Conference was in St. Charles, MO, 15-20 minutes from me. So I attended, a...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Tombstone Tuesday: John Davenport Sr. 1784-1851

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John Devenport and his wife Delilah Abernathy Devenport are my wife's fifth great grandparents. This tombstone is filled with inf...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Amanuensis Monday: Melvin Van Every and Cotton in the El Paso Valley - 1917

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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 18, 2019

Twelve Years of Genealogy Research

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I've been blogging about something since  May 2002 . In March of 2007 I wrote about my great grandfather Barney and his claim he was ...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Partnership between St. Louis County Library and Newspapers.com

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According to the April edition of PastPorts  (the St. Louis County Library's History and Genealogy Newsletter) St. Louis County Librar...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Happy Hanuka!

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Hanuka isn’t going to be celebrated for a couple weeks. It begins on the evening of December 2nd, this year. However, tomorrow is the day Ha...
Monday, November 5, 2018

Amanuensis Monday: A Protest Against Agitation Against Japanese Farmers - 1919

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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, September 19, 2018

Ahoy Vey! -- Jewish Pirates

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Repost with slight changes Today is  International Talk Like a Pirate Day . As well as the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. What would be a...
Friday, August 31, 2018

Labor Day Weekend 2018

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As you light up your barbecues this weekend and enjoy your day off from work Monday (those who have the day off) - take some part of the day...
Monday, August 27, 2018

Amanuensis Monday: Obituary for Everett Van Every - 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...
Friday, August 3, 2018

Poetry Friday - 1492 - Emma Lazarus

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1492 Emma Lazarus, (1849 - 1887) Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate, Didst weep when Spain cast forth with flaming sword, T...
Friday, July 27, 2018

Days of Love - Religious and Personal

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Tu b'Av  is a relatively obscure Jewish holiday that falls on the fifteenth day of the month of Av (sundown Thursday, July 26 to sundown...
Monday, July 9, 2018

Amenuensis Monday: Obituary for Julia Wallace (1867-1934)

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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...
Monday, July 2, 2018

Amanuensis Monday: Obituary of Melvin Van Every (1863-1929)

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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...
Monday, June 4, 2018

Amanuensis Monday: Ebenezer Denyer's Muster Roll Index Cards

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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...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

JRI-Poland Record Indexing and Morris Blatt

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JRI-Poland.org  (Jewish Records Indexing - Poland) is a must for anyone researching their Polish Jewish roots. Four of my 16 second great g...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Memorial Day - 2018

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Below is my annual post for Memorial Day. A post on what Memorial Day is for, besides barbecues. The above image comes from a past versi...
Friday, May 18, 2018

Legacy's ObitMessenger email alerts aren't completely reliable

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Below on the left you see an obituary that appeared in the August 11, 2017 St. Louis Post Dispatch. Legacy  has an ObitMessenger  servi...
Monday, April 30, 2018

Amanuensis Monday: The Wedding of Harry Feinstein and Dora Serwinsky

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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...