Randy has given us an interesting challenge tonight for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. Go over to ancestry.com and try out their Surname Distribution Map app. I’m going to use 1920 for all my maps since these people weren’t in the US before 1882 (and most came in the 1890s). I started with my own surname,…
Category: Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
SNGF: Where on the map?
Randy’s latest Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge asks us to create maps using the interface at defocus.net showing where we’ve lived and where we have visited. Then, we’re supposed to do the same for our ancestors. I have only been in two US States. I’ve lived in California all my life and I’ve been to…
SNGF: Trick and Treat
Randy has put up his weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge. This week we’re supposed to post a trick we have learned recently and then post a treat we’ve received. The trick I learned recently helped me research property in San Francisco via the San Francisco Property Information Database. By entering an address (be sure…
SNGF: This Week’s Genealogy Highlights
Randy Seaver has his weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge on his blog. This week we’re to write about our genealogy highlight. I have a three highlights that I want to share. 1. I made my first connection on WikiTree. A researcher contacted me about my Shellabarger line. This researcher has the line going back…
SNGF: My Genealogy Fun involves Evernote
Randy has put up his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun for this week. I’m supposed to write about what genealogy fun I had this week. I wish I could say I went on some wonderful field trip…but I didn’t. My genealogy fun involves Evernote. Last week, I went back to working in the French Civil Records. …