The information presented by Ancestry.com for the U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index is different depending upon whether you...

When my great grandfather, Barney, in July of 1907 crossed the Canadian border into the US, the Border Crossings document indicates the foll...

It’s been awhile since I participated in Tombstone Tuesday. I think I’ve shared all the images I have of ancestral tombstones, but I do have...

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

Back in 2010, when transcribing an interview my grandmother gave back in 1987, I heard her mention that her mother and grandfather spent som...

I have written before about keeping track of what calendar is being used with my Eastern European ancestors, since some territory went back ...

I’ve been thinking about this post for many months. How to write it. What to state. What not to state. This is one of the more disturbing ev...

   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 versio...

The 1950 US census records went online on April 1. It’s not easy finding records. There is a machine OCR index, but most of the census is c...

A month ago  I found the 1910 Tax Assessment for my second great grandparents Selig and Annie Feinstein published in the St. Louis Globe Dem...

Timeline for my 2nd great grandfather, Moshe Leyb Cruvant June 12, 1858 (*) - Moshe Leyb Cruvant was born in Cekiške, Kauno, Lithuania, to M...

Timeline for 2nd great grandfather, Moshe (Morris) Blatt 1862 - Morris Blatt was born on May 1, 1862, in Losice, Mazowieckie, Poland, to Per...

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

Scanning a box of family photos.  The back of the photograph reads, "Melvin, 1 Year 1912" My grandfather, Melvin Newmark, was born...

I've decided to create some timelines for my ancestors to organize the information I have on their lives. Here is a timeline I have crea...

What was the Eighth Street Yard?  St. Louis Globe Democrat, November 14, 1892 The police of the Third District are constantly annoyed by row...

In the 1900 Census my second great grandparents Selig and Annie (Perlik) Feinstein, their seven children, and Selig's mother Gertie were...

The Dutch brothers Myndert & Carsten Fredericksen (sons of Frederick Van Iveren) immigrated to the US in the 1600s. Most if not all with...

A few years ago I found the below “birth record” on Ancestry. It is for my great grandfather. However, Ancestry doesn’t have the images, and...

Earlier this month I wrote about my 2nd great grandfather's brother, William Sliver Denyer . I had found his Civil War Pension file, whi...