The real Olympics are over and so are the GeneaOlympics. I want to thank Randy Seaver at GeneaMusings for his extra challenges and, of course, AnceStories for the original challenges. This time around I decided to focus primarily on challenges that were related to my blog. My blog was sorely in need of some love…
Category: About My Ancestors
My Very First Deed
My latest discovery has to deal with my first adventure in researching land records. Even though I’ve been researching for over 20 years, I have not had to do land research. It was an aspect of genealogy I hadn’t really delved into. I knew that my San Francisco ancestors held land back as early as…
Marriage Entry Throws Me a Curve
The Olympics ended abruptly tonight, so I had some time to play around. I decided to make another stab at finding the marriage record for my Great Aunt Margaret Mary Jackson and her last husband, Alfred V. “Buster” Fafri. I have had a heck of a time finding any information of Margaret after 1920. By…
A Blank Research Plan for Harry Kenneth Jackson
As I work through these Genealympics challenges, I was faced with end of the line ancestor, Harry Kenneth Jackson. Harry Kenneth Jackson is a brick wall covered in concrete and topped with crazy glue–and maybe wrapped with duct tape. Not only did Harry leave no clues of his parentage or siblings, he had the audacity…
Research Plan for Mary Jane Haywards Jones
[This is a Genealympics challenge created by Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings. The task is to create a research plan for one of my “end” ancestors.] The end of my Jones line is Mary Jane (Haywards) Jones and her husband, John Jones. This is the research plan for Mary Jane. I think I do my research…