Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings posted his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Challenge tonight. It involved working with Findagrave.com to locate an ancestor’s cemetery information. I must admit this was one ?!@?#@*## frustrating challenge! I know most of the cemetery locations for my ancestors–within reason. Most were in the Azores where finding a cemetery burial may be…
Category: Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
SNGF: Filling Downtime
Randy has his weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge posted at Genea-Musings. I don’t have my blog on Blogger so I wasn’t affected by the downtime. My blogs are hosted on my own web space at 1and1.com. That doesn’t mean I’ll never experience down time. Anything can happen out on the web. I’m not that…
SNGF: My Genea Wish List
Randy’s Genea-Musings Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge is posted. This week Randy asks us to come up with our genealogy wish list, whether it be documents, education, or other things we really wish for that would bring our genealogy dreams to fruition. This is my genealogy dream come true list: 1. A birth, baptismal, or…
SNGF: The 1940 Census
Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge at Genea-Musings is all about the 1940 census, what we plan to find, and our expectations. As it will not have an index at first, I suspect that I will be slogged down in four places: Kilauea (Kauai Co., HI), Oakland (Alameda Co., CA), Spreckels (Monterey Co., CA),…
SNGF: How Many Surnames: the Summation
I thought I’d wrap up what I found in this post. These are the tallies for all three of these database. I should note that there is overlap in these database as some individuals are input into all 3 (like me!) My tally will be slightly askew from that and my inability to add correctly…