Through April 22nd, MyHeritage is making their new InColor app , free for everyone to use for an unlimited number of photographs. You need t...

Andrew David Van Every (1795-1873) St. George Baptist Cemetery, Brant County, Ontario My third great grandfather My only maternal V...

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 Influenza, 1890 - Winston Churchill, age 15 Oh how shall I its deeds recount Or measure the untold amount Of ills that it has done? Fr...

Back in 2012 for a Surname Saturday I wrote about the Surname Mojsabovsky I wrote I didn’t know the etymology of the name, or exactly how ...

Recent news stories have compared the reaction in 1918 by the cities of St. Louis and Philadelphia  to the Spanish Flu. This got me wonderin...

Back in 2008 I wrote about the FBI file for my great uncle, Samuel "Stanford" Ophan Van Every A wife of his had written the fol...

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

Back in 1987, my paternal grandmother was interviewed, and she stated that her mother, Anna Blatt Feinstein, first arrived in the United Sta...

My second great grandfather, Selig Feinstein, and my great grandfather, Herman M Feinstein, may not have been the best at coming up with adv...

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

DNA Ethnicity results aren't an exact science, and in some respects, are mostly for entertainment purposes. A large number of genealogis...

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...

I received my copy of the Missouri Historical Society’s Genealogy and House History monthly eNewsletter yesterday. They too mentioned th...

American Ancestors – the website of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) – has released a press release on “ The American ...

Post updated from 2015 I conduct a lot of genealogy research from the comfort of my home computer. One of the key resources I use is my St...

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

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

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

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