This is the second post on Randy’s Genea Musings “Count Your Trees” challenge. This time I’ll use my Jones-Jackson-Kelly-Dolan database and the database for my Dad’s side. Unlike the Azoreans who multiplied like rabbits, these lines are much shorter and were more painstaking to research. The root person for this database is Julia Jackson, my…
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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Birthday Twin
Randy’s Genea Musing’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Challenge for this week was to search my databases and find my birthday twin. I didn’t realize how unique I was. I have my genealogy in three distinct databases. Jones – Jackson = no matches Lassalle – Mazeres = no matches Pacheco – de Braga = 4 matches…
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Who Do You Blame?
Technically, it’s Sunday. But, my brain is so befuddled lately that I’m day late and a dollar short most of the time. So, I’m doing Randy’s challenge today. Brenda Joyce has an interesting blog post called Who or What Do You Blame? In this post she writes about how she got started on her genealogy…
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Happy Dances all over My Blog
Randy’s challenge this week is to list some of the happy dances, a-ha moments, and genea-gasms that we’ve blogged about. Here are a few of mine: My Very First Happy Dance – My very first visit to the local Family History Center had me face to face with my ancestors for the first time when…
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Remember When?
Randy’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Challenge asks us to think about the Summer when we were 12 years old and write about one memory. For me, 12 years old was the Summer of freedom. I had graduated from elementary school. This was the Summer when my best friend and I were allowed to roam the…