110 years ago today, the Yidishes Tageblatt announced the passing of a beloved writer with the perfect headline (image via LOC)

I recently had to explain to a 28 year old native NYer that she has been caring for a Holocaust survivor for years. She didn't know. She told me her schooling "glossed over" the Holocaust... Centenarian Jew from Hungary... She didn't know what that meant.

Alice Duer Miller's 1915 introduction of her book "Are Women People? a book of rhymes for suffrage times".

An American classic: 1928 Yiddish advertisement for kosher l'Pesach Maxwell House Coffee. This was four years before Maxwell perfected their Passover marketing with the now ubiquitous Maxwell House Haggadah.

Today is National Read Across America Day! Established by the National Education Association in 1998, in order to get kids excited about reading, the day also marks the birthday of phenomenal wordsmith Dr. Seuss. Which Seussian titles have you read and enjoyed? 💙📚 www.librarything.com/author/seussdr

Happy to share that a rare Ottoman Empire Census with surnames for the Jewish community of Izmir that I located has been indexed and published on JewishGen. There will be more to come!

Once they start going after the archivists...

~*~ FREE FILES FOR FESTIVUS! ~*~ We can finally announce that we sued the VA and WE WON! And it's probably the largest public and free data set of deceased American veterans! And now it's online and free and downloadable and searchable AND FOIA-ABLE!!! mailchi.mp/reclaimthere...

1889 was clearly the time to buy property in Bensonhurst by the Sea, New Utrecht.

In 1945, a Jewish soldier describes himself as a Glitz-vak...

We can't say for sure, because it wasn't under our watch, but it loooks like he was a deserting alien seaman.

People often joke that Chayei Sarah is about me. To this, I reply, 'Unfortunately, I was a week late, so I had to become a genealogist.'