Why Analyze Genealogical Data?

Genealogy is a constant learning process. In the beginning stages, the question may be, who were my great-grandparents. Learning a name and where they lived fills in an empty spot on a family tree and for many that is sufficient. But once a name on a tree is not enough and you decide to look […]

M. Robert Welch – Saturday Night Genealogy Fun

Randy Seaver’s Genea-Musings’ Saturday Night Genealogy Fun assignment for this week is: 1) What year was one of your great-grandfathers born?  Divide this number by 100 and round the number off to a whole number. This is your “roulette number.” 2) Use your pedigree charts or your family tree genealogy software program to find the […]

My Family – 100 Years Ago – Saturday Night Genealogy Fun

Randy Seaver in this week’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun has given us this mission: Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1)  Determine where your ancestral families were on 1 January 1913 – 100 years ago. 2)  List them, their family members, their birth years, and their […]

Sharing Memories 2012 – My First Memory

My daughter Kay and I, in working on genealogy for the past several years, have become very aware of all the questions we have about our ancestors – what they did and why and where. In 2011 I started writing “my memoirs” so my children and grandchildren would have a record of my life, and […]

My Heritage Pie and Bar Charts – Great-Great-Grandparents

I was busy in research mode on Saturday and didn’t take the time to look at Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun but decided to give another aspect [I find the research part fun] of genealogy fun  a try this morning. Although we have spent much time [and distance] searching for my mother’s mother’s grandparents, […]

Shared Birthdays

Today is Randy Seaver’s birthday and his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge is to find people in your genealogy database who share your birthday. Here’s what’s in ours: 1) Elizabeth Harmon June 22, 1824 – Elizabeth was the wife of my 1st cousin three times removed. 2) Lewis Allen Lineberry June 22, 1896 – Lewis […]