Tonight’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun mission from Randy over at Genea-Musings is to play Ancestor Roulette. They’re already dead, so there’s no losers here 😉 First, I take my paternal grandfather’s year of birth, which is 1888. Then I divide that by 100 and round off. My number is 19. Then I’m supposed to find…
Category: About My Ancestors
It’s One of the Rewards of Genealogy
When I started my family tree, I was rewarded many times. Cousins who had never heard of me before receiving my letter, email, or phone call shared stories, data, and photographs. Every time I saw a bulging envelope in the mailbox I was delighted. I was never satisfied researching a single line or my pedigree. …
Unwed Mothers in French Records
Here we go again with the French women 😉 One of the most interesting things I have found in these French records is the amount of unwed mothers being recorded in birth records. They use the terms Fils Naturel and Fille Naturelle, meaning a male or female child born out of wedlock. In the records…
Women in French Records
I’ve had a chance to work with French civil records recently. Prior to this, I’ve worked with the Azores (primarily Sao Miguel Island) and, of course, records in Hawaii, California, Massachusetts, and New York. In most cases pre-1900 women are a non-entity. Their full name might be record and it might now. They could be…
Father and Son Marry Women With the Same Name
I almost made a mistake putting families together with the new research I found on my Breilh/Mazou Verges line is Izeste, France. I was working on Jean Breilh and Jeanne Mazou Verges (sometimes recorded as Mazou Berges, Verges, or Berges). I found several children for this couple. When I started to assess the information, I…