Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings has shared another great Saturday night genealogy fun challenge! For this week’s mission (should you decide to accept it), I challenge you to:1) What day of the week was your Grandmother born (either one)? Tell us how you found out. 2) What event was a headline in the newspapers on that…
I’m joining in the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blog meme and I’m already a week behind! LOL Our youngest has been teething and needed a lot of cuddling this past week or so. Now I have a little time to sneak onto the computer with both hands free to type! This week I’m sharing…
In my last post I shared some of my goals I would like to work on in the next 13 weeks of the Genealogy Do Over. Before I could get down to making research plans I wanted to upgrade my laptops operating system and programs. As I’ve mentioned before I use Linux my primary operating…
A few weeks ago Thomas MacEntee announced a new project on the Geneabloggers site. It’s the Genealogy Do Over and wow has it gathered a lot of attention in the genealogy community! There is even a Facebook group with over 1000 members. The basic idea behind the Genealogy Do Over is to put aside ALL…
It’s that time of year again when we start to look back over what we have accomplished and what we would like to make better in the year to come. Last year I didn’t post any genealogy goals for 2014. I was expecting our 6th little baby and having a few health issues. I knew…
Amanuensis Monday is a blogging theme created by John Newmark at the Transylvanian Dutch blog. From Genea-Bloggers “An Amanuensis is a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.” James Mills was my 2nd Great Grandfather he was born 16 April 1826 in Worlingworth, Suffolk, England. James…
I’m joining in Saturday Night Genealogy Fun from Randy Seaver’s blog Genea-Musings. Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music): 1) Dana Leeds on the Enthusiastic Genealogist blog asks “Did/Do Your Children Know Any of Their Great-Grandparents?” 2) I thought that would be a great Saturday Night Genealogy…
Last January I posted that while searching for information on one of my 5th Great Grandmothers Eunice the first wife of Adam Howatt, I discovered a baptism index that showed her surname as Crossman not Buell. Eunice has been a long time brick wall for researchers, township history books for P.E.I. list her as Eunice…
One of my 3rd Great Grandmothers Rhoda A. Crowell (Puddington) has been a long time brick wall in my family genealogy. I’ve always wanted to find out who Rhoda really was and what family she belonged to. This past week I decided to start my search fresh with just the facts I knew and not…
I recently shared the ethnicity results of MyOrigins Family Tree DNA results. Last summer I also had my autosomal DNA tested with Ancestry. This is a brief look at it’s ethnic suggestions. Family Tree DNA’s MyOrigins showed I was 100% European with a break down of Western and Central Europe 50%, British Isles 32%, and Scandinavia…