This week’s Saturday Night Genealogy Challenge from Randy’s GeneaMusings website is to calculate the age at death of five generations of female ancestors. I’ll be using RootsMagic to help me with this task. Mother: Still Going Strong Grandmothers Anna (Jackson) Shellabarger (1912-2006) – 93 yrs Anna (Mazeres) Lassalle (1897-1984) – 86 yrs Great Grandmothers Margaret…
Category: Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
SNGF: Genealogy Database Statistics
Randy has his weekly challenge at GeneaMusings.com ready for us. This week his challenge asks us to find our genealogy statistical reports. Then, find the answer to how many people, places, sources, etc., are in the database? I use RootsMagic 7 to maintain my family tree database. Normally, I would head over to the statistical…
SNGF: My Best Genealogy Day Ever
Randy Seaver has this week’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun posted. The question for tonight is “What is your very best genealogy day ever?” Ever is such a long time. Truth be told, there were many best genealogy days since I began researching in 1990. I’m going to tell you about the first time I found…
SNGF: My Ancestors Occupations
Randy Seaver has a new challenge up for this week’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. This week the focus is ancestor occupations. I’ll start with my parents like Randy did and work back to my great great grandparents. After that the information on occupations is limited. My Dad (1927-2010) 1958-1989 Safeway bakery line worker and roofing…
SNGF: A Mother’s Day Favorite Photo
Since it’s Mother’s Day tomorrow, Randy has given us an easy challenge. Post a favorite photo of our Mom and tell why it’s our favorite. This one was taken around 1940. My mom was 4 or 5 years old. I love this photo. It is one of a handful of my mom’s childhood photos that…