[This is my entry for week 32 of the 52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy prompts created by Amy Coffin of WeTree. This week’s prompt is to write about a memory of a relative.] Most of my childhood I stayed away from adults. They were to be avoided. I either hung out with the other kids…
Marriage Entry Throws Me a Curve
The Olympics ended abruptly tonight, so I had some time to play around. I decided to make another stab at finding the marriage record for my Great Aunt Margaret Mary Jackson and her last husband, Alfred V. “Buster” Fafri. I have had a heck of a time finding any information of Margaret after 1920. By…
A Blank Research Plan for Harry Kenneth Jackson
As I work through these Genealympics challenges, I was faced with end of the line ancestor, Harry Kenneth Jackson. Harry Kenneth Jackson is a brick wall covered in concrete and topped with crazy glue–and maybe wrapped with duct tape. Not only did Harry leave no clues of his parentage or siblings, he had the audacity…
Research Plan for Mary Jane Haywards Jones
[This is a Genealympics challenge created by Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings. The task is to create a research plan for one of my “end” ancestors.] The end of my Jones line is Mary Jane (Haywards) Jones and her husband, John Jones. This is the research plan for Mary Jane. I think I do my research…
The 1936 Olympics in Berlin
Last night, I had the chance to listen to the “Stuff You Missed in History Class” podcast. The topic of the podcast was the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. What we know of the 1936 Berlin Games seems to come down to Jesse Owen’s feats and the handshake snub. This pocast touched a bit on…