Pat and I spent last week in the nation’s capital attending the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies’ annual conference. My brain is full and I am trying to get some organization going so it all doesn’t just spill on …
Pat and I are preparing to go to Washington, DC for the International Association of Jewish genealogists (IAJGS) meeting. We’re leaving on the 13th and we are happily looking forward to great talks, meeting new friends and seeing some family. …
The Carnival of Genealogy theme this month is food. This week’s post is a slight reworking of a post of the same name that I published in May of 2009. I need a hoagie, from Lee’s, the Cheltenham, …
I have lots of family pictures, boxes and boxes of them. About fifteen years ago I actually had the foresight to sit down with my mother and ask her to help me label these old photos. In the course of …
A few weeks ago Randy Seaver asked in Saturday Night Fun, “If I knew then what I know now, I would have…” As I was searching for an answer the question became tangled up in my mind with the controversy …