One of my challenges from the Genea Blogger Games was to find a new genealogy blog, then leave a comment. This seemed like a pretty easy thing to do until I realized that their were a gazillion genealogy blogs! At first, I roamed the web aimlessly. I thought I might find a blog related to…
My Random Acts of Genealogy Kindness
This has been a thoroughly enjoyable challenge to complete for the Genea-Blogger Group Games. Any reason to do genealogy research is a good time in my book. It doesn’t matter if it’s my family or not. I’ll research anyone. It’s always good to work on trees unrelated to your own. You often find yourself in…
Genea-Blogger’s Blog Networks on Facebook
I have marked off another item completed on my Genea-Blogger Group Games challenge. I have signed up for five genealogy blogger networks on Facebook. I only needed to do one, but were several that piqued my interest. I have been a fan of a couple of these blogs for years and it was nice to…
Genea Blogger Games Weekend
Representing the United States, the Kingdom of Hawaii, France, the Azores, Portugal, England, Ireland, Australia, and a bunch of other places is…ME! 🙂 I didn’t really get to do much for the competition this weekend. I took care of my brother’s 3 dogs. One of them ate a bar of a soap and was ill…
My Great Great Grandmother, Margaret (Kelly) Jones
Margaret Kelly was born in November of 1849 in Manchester, NH. Margaret was the oldest child of Martin Kelly and Catherine Dolan, natives of Co. Roscommon, Ireland. Her parents moved the family to Boston, MA around 1851. They only stayed there a couple of years. By 1854, the family had moved across the country and…