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, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. Not only do the documents contain...
Weekly Genealogy Picks -- November 29 to December 5
from genealogy blogs, newspaper articles and elsewhere
Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings shares how he found a family home on Google. Randy also reminds us that online databases are not free from error...
I just learned that the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - acquired St. Louis Globe Democrat's clippings file - also known as the newspaper's 'morgue' - when the paper ceased publication in 1986. Over 10,000,000 separate...
The 85th Carnival of Genealogy has been posted. It's filled with stories about orphans, and orphans.
The 86th Carnival appears to be a two-parter
The topic for the next edition of the Carnival of Genealogy will be: The Other Holiday Happenings! Often...
