I am participating in the Genealympics hosted by AnceStories and Randy Seaver’s Genea-Musings. I had gotten off to a late start as I was obsessed with watching the Olympics. But, I think I’ve done pretty good for 3 days work. I completed two of the first week’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenges, two of the…
Author: Melody Lassalle
Genealogist and writer. Creator of the Portuguese Hawaiian Genealogy and Heritage website, yourislandroutes.com
A Biographical Sketch of Marie Lassalle of France
This is part of the Genealympics challenges created by AnceStories and Genea-Musings in the Write! Write! Write! category. The French civil and church records are available. I found out about it last Autumn and immediately immersed myself in them. This biographical sketch comes from the records I was able to unearth on my 5th great…
SNGF: How many blogs do you read?
This is a Genealympics challenge and part of Saturday Night Genealogy Fun created by Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings. In this challenge, I’m supposed to check out how many genealogy blogs I read each day. I read my blogs on my Nook Tablet using Google Reader. I looked over my list and calculated each entry. The…
SNGF: Source to Person Ratio
This is part of the Genealympics Challenges and Saturday Night Genealogy Fun at Randy Seaver’s Genea-Musings. My assignment is to calculate my source to person ratio in my database. I use RootsMagic. It was easy to find the total number of people in my database: 9, 856. Calculating the sources took a little light bulb…
What’s this blog about?
This is part of Genealympics challenges put together by AnceStories and Genea-Musings. This challenge falls under the Write! Write! Write! category. It’s been awhile since I’ve told my readers what this blog is about. Probably two years ago…since the last Genealympics. The Research Journal is an offshoot of my website Portuguese Hawaiian Genealogy and Heritage. …