Randy’s challenge for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun is to play Ancestor Roulette. I’m to pick one of my great grandfathers. Then, take his birthday and divide it by 50. The end results is what I look up on my ahnentafel chart. Once I have my person, I’m to tell you all three facts about that…
Category: Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
SNGF: Ancestral Names Numbers
Randy has his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge at GeneaMusings out early today, so I thought that I’d get right on top of it. This week’s challenge is based on Crista Cowan’s blog post Family History All Done? What’s Your Number? The idea that a family history could be all done boggles my mind. I’ve…
SNGF: Popular Baby Names
Randy’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge was posted last night. This week I’m supposed to see how popular my name is in different decades. Since my name isn’t all that common, I’m going to guess that it was popular in the 1960s and 1970s, but not much before or after. Will I be right? Using…
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…
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…