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…
Do these genealogy charts make me look obsessed?
A bored genealogist should never be left to their own devices 😉 A couple of years ago, I came across the book “Genealogias de S. Miguel e Santa Maria: Volume 1” by Rodrigo Rodrigues. This is a compilation of the lines of 21 of the original settlers to the islands of Sao Miguel and Santa…
RootsMagic Works For Me
[I am working my way backwards through Amy Coffin’s 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy prompts because I wasn’t paying attention at the beginning of the year. This is week #26…Genealogy Software.] When I first started working on my family tree, I bought a DOS bases software program called “The Leading Edge”. I love it. It…
Are You My Great Aunt?
A few days ago, I found a marriage entry that kind of blew me away. My Great Aunt, Margaret (Jackson) Fafri, was known to have married three times. But the marriage entry that I found for her “third” marriage showed that we all were wrong. She was married (at least) four times. In 1944, she…
Mistakes Happen
[I am working my way backwards through Amy Coffin’s 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy prompts because I wasn’t paying attention at the beginning of the year. This is week #28…Mistakes.] Mistakes happen in genealogy. Even the most experienced genealogy can read a name wrong, transpose a number, and come to the wrong conclusion. One of…