Five years ago I made fun of Geni's twisted relationship finder  that determined how William Shatner was 'related' to Leonard N...

 Back in 2018 I found the obituaries of my 2nd great grandfather's sisters - Sylvia Dudelczak Blufston Babchick , Lottie Dudelczak Getz...

It's been a long while since I've been able to add a photograph to my ancestral montages below. It's exciting to be able to do s...

  I posted the below photo in 2009  as an Unidentified Family phOto. Going through some family folders, the image was used on a family reuni...

Belle Wyman Korn (1914-2015) was my grandmother's first cousin. They were the same age, and were best of friends. The Wymans moved to Ca...

My maternal grandmother, Myrtle Vanevery Deutsch, had her sister sign an affidavit of birth for her twice. In 1942, and again in 1945. In 19...

Tu b'Av  is a relatively obscure Jewish holiday that falls on the fifteenth day of the month of Av (sundown Tuesday Aug 4 to sundown Wed...

Robert Lee Gober  (1895-1971) is on the far left in the photograph below, holding the basketball. He is my wife's great grandfather. Ben...

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 ver...

Here’s a research tip that probably should go without saying, but sometimes as humans we get tired or sloppy, and forget. Indexes made by ...

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...