Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Ahnentafel Roulette
Today’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge by Randy over at GeneaMusings is to play Ahnentafel Roullete. The ‘rules’ are as follows…
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- What year was one of your great-grandfathers born? Divide this number by 80 and round the number off to a whole number. This is your “roulette number.”
- Use your pedigree charts or your family tree genealogy software program to find the person with that number in your ancestral name list (some people call it an “ahnentafel” – your software will create this – use the “Ahnentafel List” option, or similar). Who is that person, and what are his/her vital information?
- Tell us three facts about that person in your ancestral name list with the “roulette number.”
So, here goes!
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- I picked my great grandfather, Emil Wilhelm Peters who was born in 1877. After dividing by 80, I rounded the answer to 23.
- Person #23 in my tree is my great, great grandmother, Elizabeth Bennett who was born in 1849 in Greene County, Missouri and died in 1914 in Sumner County, Kansas.
- 3 facts about Elizabeth Bennett:
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- She married Josiah Randolph Coppenbarger on the 20th of February, 1873 in Newton County, Missouri at “the home of her father”, Henry Bennett
- She had 6 children: 3 sons & 3 daughters
- She moved from Newton County, Missouri to Sumner County, Kansas within a year or two of getting married (they moved before the 1875 Kansas state census)
As always, I uncovered something new while participating in this SNGF post. This time, I uncovered the marriage record for Elizabeth Bennett on Ancestry! I also see that I can order a copy of it, which I’ll probably do as the online copy is poor.
Do we share common ancestors? I’d love to talk! Please email me at drleeds@sbcglobal.net.
Oh, I love the picture!! What a treasure! Also, great find on Ancestry!!
Great post, and how lucky to find the marriage record!
What a great find! 🙂 I love the picture- what a beautiful family! Thank you for sharing!