The Genealogy Search

Time for Saturday night fun with Randy Seaver at   Genea-Musing  Genea-Musing Here is the assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 1) What year was your paternal grandfather 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 person with that number in your ancestral name list (some people call it an "ahnentafel"). Who is that person? 3) Tell us three facts about that person in your ancestral name list with the "roulette number." 4) Write about it in a blog post on your own blog, in a Facebook status or a Google Stream post, or as a comment on this blog post. 5) If you do not have a person's name for your "roulette number" then spin the wheel again - pick a grandmother, or yourself, a parent, a favorite aunt or cousin, or even your children! Here are my an...

Leland Meitzler , posted his top ten list of "Most Satisfying Genealogy Events" and Randy Seaver announced for today's SNGF : 1) Tell us about one (or more) "Satisfying Genealogy Moments" from your family history and genealogy research. What was it, and how did it make you feel? You can make a Top Ten list if you want to! 10. Locating my Skibbe and Miottel naturalization records in the same court days apart in Chicago. 9. Going back one more generation on my Poundstone family. 8. Attending my first NGS Conference - Wow! 7. Locating and visiting my Skibbe Great Grandparent's church and cemetery in rural Indiana. 6. Locating new cousins through Ancestry, Facebook , and World Vital Records. 5. Receiving pictures of my Skibbe family (I had none) from a new cousin found on the Web. 4. Starting a new family database and correctly citing every entry. There is joy in having my documents correctly cited and filed correctly both in my binders...