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Blog Action Day 2013 - October 16th 7 Aug 2013 | 05:56 am
Blog Action Day is an free annual event, that has run since 2007. Its aim is to unite the world’s bloggers by posting about the same issue, on the same day, in order to raise awareness and trigger a p...
Don't Jump to Conclusions 4 Aug 2013 | 09:12 pm
I was looking at the marriage license application for some distant cousins, and it appeared that the uncle of the groom signed the document as the father of the bride. The document, as many marriage a...
The Fine Art of Record Destruction 31 Jul 2013 | 04:43 pm
If everything goes according to plan...and the puzzle pieces are coming together...my wife and I will be moving to a new home in a month. It's been fifteen years since I last moved, and there has bee...
Tu b'Av - A Day of Love 23 Jul 2013 | 01:50 am
Tu b'Av is a relatively obscure Jewish holiday that falls on the fifteenth day of the month of Av (sundown Sunday, July 21 to sundown Monday, July 22 this year). The fifteenth day of each month on th...
Amanuensis Monday: New Institute for Hebrew Children - December 13, 1900 15 Jul 2013 | 10:31 pm
Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my project to transcribe family letters, journals, newspaper articles, audiotapes,...
Amanuensis Monday: Virginia Cruvant Zimmerman Sharp (1915-2013) - from Flower Girl to Great Grandmother 8 Jul 2013 | 05:41 pm
Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my project to transcribe family letters, journals, newspaper articles, audiotapes,...
C-Span Video - For Genealogists 5 Jul 2013 | 09:55 pm
Back in 2010 C-Span uploaded almost its entire video library - covering 23 years, and they have added to it since then. All accessible online for free. One could spend days (months, years) reliving h...
Happy Independence Day 4 Jul 2013 | 06:39 pm
Happy Independence Day! The New Colossus Emma Lazarus Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mig...
Amanuensis Monday: A Concert in Carr Park - August 10, 1902 1 Jul 2013 | 03:00 pm
Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my project to transcribe family letters, journals, newspaper articles, audiotapes,...
Ancestry New Search and Phonetic Searches 29 Jun 2013 | 08:08 am
It had been awhile since I used Ancestry's "New Search" so since "Old Search" is going to disappear soon, I started to explore a bit. One of the first things I saw briefly got me excited. In addition...
