Randy posts a weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge over at Genea-Musings. Tonight’s challenge is about your August genealogical “finds.” Here are the rules… Did you do some genealogy research during August 2014? Did you find a great record or story pertaining to an ancestor or family member? Tell us about the BEST genea-prize (“record”) you found during August 2014. What was it, where did you find it, and how does it help advance your research? Share your genea-prize in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook or Google+ post. NOTE: If you...
Randy has posted another Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge. This week we are looking at Sarah’s in our database with ‘last names unknown’ or LNU. I’m going to summarize the rules this time: Basically, search your database and see how many females you have with the first name of “Sarah” where you don’t know the last name. Then, do a little research and see if you can discover her maiden name. If you don’t have any Sarah’s, feel free to use a different first name. Then, post your findings! So, here goes! I have two Sarah’s, but they are such...
William Porter Dickson enlisted in September of 1861 to fight as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War. In the supplement to his 1911 Civil War Questionnaire he listed eight battles in which his company, Company D of the 12th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, took place. I am going to learn more about his company’s role in the Civil War by researching these eight battles. from William Porter Dickson’s 1911 Questionnaire The second battle listed on William Porter Dickson’s 1911 Questionnaire is the Battle of Shiloh. Approximately 100,000 soldiers met in Shiloh, Tennessee as they fought over the train depot at...
William Porter Dickson enlisted in September of 1861 to fight as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War. In the supplement to his 1911 Civil War Questionnaire he listed eight battles in which his company, Company D of the 12th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, took place. I am going to learn more about his company’s role in the Civil War by researching these eight battles. from William Porter Dickson’s 1911 Questionnaire Battle #1: The Battle of Belmont, November 7, 1861 Map of the Battle of Belmont (Image from Wikipedia – public domain) This battle is important as it was the first...
Carrie, over at “Under the Nut Tree Genealogy” participated in an older Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge today. This post, from January 18th of this year, is titled “How Many Children/Grandchildren in Your Matrilineal Line?” I thought I’d participate as I didn’t have a blog in January. Here’s the challenge: Consider your Matrilineal Line (mother’s mothers mother’s, etc.) families – the ones from your mother back through her mother all the way back to the first of that matrilineal line in your family group sheets or genealogy database. List the names of these mothers, and their lifespan years. Use your paper...
Randy has posted his latest Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge on GeneaMusings. This week’s challenge is titled “Two Degrees of Separation.” Here’s the assignment: Using your ancestral lines, how far back in time can you go with two degrees of separation? That means “you knew an ancestor, who knew another ancestor.” When was that second ancestor born? Tell us about it in a blog post of your own, in a comment to this blog post, in a status line on Facebook or a stream post on Google Plus. Randy broke his down by line, so I thought I would, too....
As genealogists, we come across some really interesting items that don’t directly relate to our family tree. I decided to start a series called “Not My Family” Friday where I can share some of these amazing finds. If you’d like to join along, please post a link to your post! I’d love to see what you’ve found! Here’s a really disgusting series of articles about a man who repeatedly threw up snakes! (I found this while looking for my Longwell family in Pennsylvania, though I don’t see a connection for this man to my tree.) “Two Snakes in His Stomach”,...
I mentioned on my “inmates” post that I had an ancestors who was an inmate in an “old soldier’s home” but I couldn’t remember which ancestors. So, to find out more about these types of homes, I randomly looked at the Arkansas “Confederate Home Records” site. They have a search engine where you can look for ancestors who might have lived here. And, if you find a match, you can fill out a form and send off for their records! Pretty neat, right? Except I don’t have confederate soldiers from Arkansas. However, I was playing around and typed in three...
It’s that time of year again – kids are going back to school. In honor of that, Randy’s weekly Saturday Night Fun Challenge is to share some elementary school memories. So, here goes! My official kindergarten photo I started school very close to home. In fact, Lincoln Elementary was just across the alley from our backyard! I could be in my classroom just minutes after leaving my backyard. I remember my best friend, Misty, having to tie my shoes for me at recess during kindergarten. And I remember hearing the bell one day and heading home… and my mom told...
NOTE: I spoke too soon! I just received paperwork on these two men. The one who committed murder is actually a brother of my ancestor. But, the one who committed “assault to rape” is NOT her brother. He is about 20 years too young. I guess I should have waited until I had all the facts, but it seemed to fit! It’s a good lesson for me…. just because someone has the right name and lives in the right state does NOT mean they are the same person!!! Two days ago I wrote about my great, great grandmother’s brothers who...
