Randy’s challenge for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun is to play Ancestor Roulette. I’m to pick one of my great grandfathers. Then, take his birthday and divide it by 50. The end results is what I look up on my ahnentafel chart. Once I have my person, I’m to tell you all three facts about that…
Category: About My Ancestors
Do these genealogy charts make me look obsessed?
A bored genealogist should never be left to their own devices 😉 A couple of years ago, I came across the book “Genealogias de S. Miguel e Santa Maria: Volume 1” by Rodrigo Rodrigues. This is a compilation of the lines of 21 of the original settlers to the islands of Sao Miguel and Santa…
Are You My Great Aunt?
A few days ago, I found a marriage entry that kind of blew me away. My Great Aunt, Margaret (Jackson) Fafri, was known to have married three times. But the marriage entry that I found for her “third” marriage showed that we all were wrong. She was married (at least) four times. In 1944, she…
SNGF: Ancestral Names Numbers
Randy has his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge at GeneaMusings out early today, so I thought that I’d get right on top of it. This week’s challenge is based on Crista Cowan’s blog post Family History All Done? What’s Your Number? The idea that a family history could be all done boggles my mind. I’ve…
Wedding Chapel Wednesday: Koch and Meincke Marriage License
Recently, I’ve been working with the San Francisco County Records at <a href=”http://www.familysearch.org” target=”_blank”>FamilySearch.org</a>. This collection includes marriage licenses, certificates, and record indexes covering roughly 1906 to 1975. This week I located the marriage license of Carl Koch and Winifred Meincke. Winifred was born in 1886 to Mary Ann (Kelly) and Frederick Meincke. Carl was…