Hanukkah begins today at sundown. Not knowing much about Hanukkah, I found some greatly informative links on the Genealogy Insider Blog. Plus Diane also adds links for doing Jewish genealogical research in the same posting.
It snowed today. It is that time of the year when people talk about how nice it would be to have snow on Christmas. I have a snowy Christmas memory that makes me nervous, even today some 25 years later. I was staying at my mother’s house for Christmas. On Christmas day, my brother and …
There is blog called GeneaBloggers that suggests topics for us genealogy bloggers. They are having a kind of “Advent Calender” for the Christmas season. The first suggestion asks if we had a real or artificial Christmas trees. We had real trees and for a good reason. From the early 1950s to the mid 1960s my …