Randy posted his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Challenge… and it’s based on one of my posts! Neat! So, here are the rules: Dana Leeds on the Enthusiastic Genealogist blog asks “Did/Do Your Children Know Any of Their Great-Grandparents?“ I thought that would be a great Saturday Night Genealogy Fun question – so please share your response with us in a blog post of your own, in a comment on this blog post, or in a Facebook or Google+ post. For extra credit, or in case the answer is “No,” then please answer the question for yourself, or your parents Randy,...
Paula Stuart-Warren posted about the birth of her first great grandchild. Then, she talked about how many great-grandparents her children knew, and how many great-grandparents she knew. That got me thinking about the relationship my daughter has had with four of her great-grandparents. (I only had one great-grandparent living when I was born, but she lived across the country and died when I was less than 2 months old.) One of my husband’s grandmother’s died when my daughter was about 14 months old. Sadly, she had an advanced case of Alzheimer’s. She kept thinking my baby girl was a baby...
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....
