I am participating in the Genealympics (see previous posts for my activities). I’ve been looking over the list of tasks at AnceStories and I am confounded. It appears I have forgotten about all sorts of ways we geneabloggers network and interact online. My problems started in 2009 when my elderly dog was going downhill. She…
Category: About My Ancestors
Genealympics First Week Results
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…
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…