This is my entry for Randy Seaver’s weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge. This week we’re to write about our best find of 2014, then write about an ancestor we want to work on in 2015. 2014 was a year of many discoveries. The records in the Azores went online, Portuguese Hawaiian newspapers went online,…
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SNGF: The Day of my Grandfather’s Birth
Randy Seaver over at GeneaMusings.com has his weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge out. This week we’re to look up our grandfather’s birthday, find out what day of the week it was, note any historical events, and see if anyone famous was born on that day. My Paternal Grandfather, Jean Lassalle, was born 29 Jun…
SNGF: Genealogy Resources and Usage
For Randy’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Challenge this week, he has asked us to fill out a survey. Below are the questions with my answers. 1) Answer these questions in my survey about genealogy resources and usage: a) Which genealogy software programs for your computer do you use (e.g., Family Tree Maker,…
SNGF: My Father’s Maternal Line
It’s time for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. Thanks to Randy for this challenge! This one is all about my Dad’s mother’s line. My Dad’s mother’s name was Anna Madeleine Mazeres. She was born 17 Oct 1897 in San Francisco, CA and died 2 Feb 1984, also in San Francisco (though she lived in Oakland, CA…
SNGF: Questions about me
This week Randy is asking us to answer six questions he heard in in a keynote address given by Judy Russell at RootsTech. I’m going to try to answer as best I can. a) What was your first illness as a child? I’m not sure what was first, but the first one I remember was…