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…
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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. …
Genea Challenge Two: How far can you go?
This is the second challenge set out in Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun for the Genealympics. This time I am to take one surname from my tree and write about how far back I can go. I am going to avoid the Portuguese. Their surnames change so frequently that I wouldn’t get back very…
Genea Challenge One: The 16th Greats Greats and their Descendants
This is my first challenge completed for the Genealympics. Challenge number one is to pick one of my 16th great grandparents and tally up the descendants. I can earn medals based on how many descendants are in the line. Since I really want the best medal I can get, I’m chosing my Pacheco line. Good…