Randy’s challenge this week is to list some of the happy dances, a-ha moments, and genea-gasms that we’ve blogged about. Here are a few of mine: My Very First Happy Dance – My very first visit to the local Family History Center had me face to face with my ancestors for the first time when…
Category: Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Remember When?
Randy’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Challenge asks us to think about the Summer when we were 12 years old and write about one memory. For me, 12 years old was the Summer of freedom. I had graduated from elementary school. This was the Summer when my best friend and I were allowed to roam the…
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: A Genealogy Gift
Randy’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun is to pick out a genealogy gift for someone and write about it. There are many things, existing and not, that I could chose. I think that instead of getting a gift for one person, it would be for the cousins who descend from my Great Great Uncle, Antonio Pacheco. …
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: I’m Wishing…
For this weeks SNGF at Genea Musings, Randy asks us to write about genealogy database we’d like to see adding to the web. My wish list would include… The Garden Island Newspaper of Kauai, Hawaii. The newspaper started in 1902 and would be rich with information on the comings and goings of my family from…
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…