"a very ignorant illiterate Dutchman"
This is my first diary, and it isn’t flashy. It’s pretty much a repost of a piece I prepared for weekly column I write for my Rotary Club newsletter. [Yes, I received permission to repost from the...
View ArticleGFHC Open Thread: “Hand in the Cookie Jar”
I can’t really explain it. I don’t have a childhood memory that relates either to a cookie jar, or to some furtive pleasure that’s connected with breaking through a barrier (brick wall?). But when I...
View ArticleConversations with Ancestors
It's late at night. The G&FH Community has already had a successful Friday Open Thread. So why am I writing a diary? I guess because I started to ponder how learning more about my ancestors has...
View ArticleUnusual German Surname? Got your German pedigree? How to check SS files to...
This is really a response to a comment in a very recent Genealogy & Family History Community diary, Books So Bad They're Good: Defenders of the Bell Curve, by Ellid. Specifically, it is my...
View ArticleThe Mark Fickin Controversy and Missouri Racism
Let me say from the first that I'm proud of Daily Kos. Proud that more than one point of view can be expressed in a civil manner.I'm referring to this diary: "Even if Mark Ficken didn't egg the crowd...
View ArticleFrom Measles to Polio...a wide-ranging discussion
This morning I opened Daily Kos on my browser and scanned for interesting diaries to read as I sipped my coffee. One that addressed the folly of a megachurch hit with a run of measles cases after...
View ArticleSupervisor Antonovich is not our friend
This afternoon the Los Angeles Times is reporting that the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has approved a resolution urging Federal legislation to undo the recent Supreme Court ruling that...
View ArticleNuclear option...because House!
Listening to Kagro in the Morning, I became interested in the use of the word "dilatory" with respect to Roberts Rules of Order, and so decided to investigate. I didn't find mention of the word in a...
View ArticleGFHC: Thinking about My Dad
Last Friday’s “Open Thread” carried the theme of not believing everything you read. Today’s theme is: “Don’t believe everything you hear!” Or something.... December 6, 1910. My Dad was born in St....
View ArticleGFHC Open Thread: The State of Today's Genealogical Societies
Here’s a “window” into my despair: I’ve reviewed for retention purposes a file folder in my society’s library’s vertical files that purports to offer useful information about the State of Wisconsin....
View ArticleL.A. Kossacks: Down-Ballot Races?
As an L.A. County relative "newbie," I'm a bit flummoxed by the sight of the Nonpartisan Offices in the just-released Official Sample Ballot for the June 3rd Statewide Direct Primary Election. Any of...
View ArticleMy personal take in "The War on Voters"
I'm now a Californian, but grew up in St. Louis County, MO. In 1964 my parents moved their primary residence to their weekend escape home in a rural county not far away. They were Republicans, and...
View ArticleGFHC Open Thread: My “Lost” (and now found) Relatives
For this week’s Genealogy and Family History Community “Open Thread” I’m going to offer something completely different. I have no New England ancestors in my tree, so I’ll just have to “punt.” But I...
View ArticleCalifornia HSR gets a needed boost
I'm hardly the person to be diarying about this, but I haven't seen mention of it here yet. And it's important for California -- while having potential impact for other parts of the country...
View ArticleFerguson: Has anyone else noticed this?
From today's Post-Dispatch, a small item:House speaker calls for special prosecutor during low-key stop in Ferguson Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones, R-Eureka, visited the spot where Brown was killed...
View ArticleFinding "New Ferguson"
I grew up in St. Louis County, but now live half a continent away. Consequently my attention has been consumed lately by the events unfolding in Ferguson, even though I lack a personal connection with...
View ArticleGFHC open thread: my week at the FHC.
As promised to the genealogical community here, I’m reporting back on my experience traveling to Salt Lake City for research at the Family History Library. Others are invited to describe their own...
View ArticleGFHC Open Thread: How Were You Introduced to Genealogy?
This is not a deep question. We’ve all had the usual holiday gatherings and celebrations, and may now be ready for some quiet reflection. Or that’s my premise. And anyway, my furnace is...
View ArticleGFHC open thread
We’ve been fairly quiet as a DK community lately, so I’m guessing that everyone’s pretty busy. That would explain why fewer of us have been signing up to host a Friday. No problem! This should be...
View ArticleGFHC: German Genealogy #1
Last week we announced that the “Open Thread” series of Fridays would be suspended. But everyone is still welcome to submit diaries to the Community!! I will be posting on Fridays, when I post them....
View ArticleGFHC: German Genealogy #2
This diary continues where our Community’s suspended Friday “Open Thread” series leaves off…. What are you doing, genealogically speaking, this Memorial Day weekend? Some “tips” on Germanic...
View ArticleGFHC: German Genealogy #3
This diary continues where our Community’s suspended Friday “Open Thread” series leaves off…. What are you doing, genealogically speaking, this July Fourth weekend? Some random observations on...
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