While I’m waiting for my domain issue to straighten out, I thought I’d take a break from our normal genealogy programming. My puppy, Misha, has turned 8 months old. Here’s the little stinker: In this photo, she’s enjoying one of her favorite past times. She’s hiding under her favorite blanket. That’s where she takes her…
Category: Census Research
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Most Recent Unknown Ancestor
This week Randy at Genea Musings asks us to write about our most recent unknown ancestor. I didn’t even have to think about it. It’s my Great Grandfather, Harry Kenneth Jackson, who is #14 on my Ahnentafel chart. Harry, what can I say about Harry? Almost nothing! I know about as much about him as…
Revisiting the Smith Lagrange Conundrum
I’ve posted a couple of times about a research problem involving John Lagrange who died before 1840. He was the son of Elias “Jellis” Lagrange and Annatie Van Patten, of Albany Co., NY. In the 1840 Census, John Lagrange is listed next to Henry Smith in Duanesburgh, Schenectady Co., NY. John’s son, John S. Lagrange…
Are These The Right Smiths?
I’m working on my brother-in-law’s La Grange line. It’s well documented and goes back to the originally immigrant, Omie de La Grange, who arrived in New Amsterdam in the mid-1600s. The problem is that I have a hole right smack in the middle of the tree! John S. La Grange died in 1916 in Rotterdam,…
Saturday Night Fun: Where were They in 1909?
From Randy Seaver at the Genea-Musings Blog: A couple of Great Great Grandparents, several of my Great Grandparents and, of course, my Grandparents were alive in 1909. On my Mom’s side: Great Great Grandparents: Thomas Augustine Jones (age 61) was living in Oakland, California with his daughter, Margaret, and her family and Jozimas de Braga…