Senior and Junior. Two Latin words meaning ‘the elder’ and ‘the younger’. Normally it’s straightforward, but here's a cautionary tale.

What challenges of reading an older document, such as a 15th century manuscript, and what can its language tell us? Who, when, where & more!

A comma, semi-colon or period - different quotation marks in different languages - Agh! What an interesting history to punctuation marks.

Figuring out the day of the week that something happened can be important in genealogy. Here are a couple approaches.

Some old cemeteries have gravestones written in German. Here are some tips to help translate some key words.

One says he's German. The other says he's Danish. They're twins. It actually makes sense, but there's history to understand.