Amanuensis Monday – this daily prompt, developed by John Newmark at Transylvanian Dutch, encourages bloggers to transcribe family letters, journals, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. (An amanuensis is someone employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.) Today’s transcription is an obituary for Joseph Edward Johnsen, my great-great grandfather. This newspaper clipping was found in a collection of scanned notes compiled as part of a family photo project from a number of years ago. Original text: Citation: [Currently unknown.] Transcription: [June 12, 1947 written at the top in pen] Joseph E. Johnsen, Sr., 58, of route 3, box 508, Duluth, died yesterday in…