Category Archives: Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun

SNGF: My Unknown Ancestor

Randy’s challenge this week was to check my pedigree chart for my first unknown ancestor.  This is a person who I know the surname of but nothing else or I know the first name but not the surname. I’d have to go back many generations on my French and Portuguese lines before I hit anyone …

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SNGF: Random Name Generator

Randy has come up with a pretty creative challenge for tonight’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun.  I haven’t done one of these in awhile, so I thought I’d try my hand at it. I used the Random Name Generator to get a name to research.  The first name to come up was Benjamin Sosa. I started …

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SNGF: Ancestor Roulette

Tonight’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun mission from Randy over at Genea-Musings is to play Ancestor Roulette.  They’re already dead, so there’s no losers here First, I take my paternal grandfather’s year of birth, which is 1888.  Then I divide that by 100 and round off.  My number is 19.  Then I’m supposed to find number …

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