Category Archives: Personal Research

Weekly column sharing birth, marriage, and death events for people in my family tree. This post completes an entire year of the Family Events column, and is therefore the last post for this theme.

Weekly column sharing birth, marriage, and death events for people in my family tree.

Prompt:  Update older posts. If you find more information related to a previous post, create an update post. Link to the older posts to refresh readers’ memories, then give us the details on new discoveries. Back in February I posted an obituary for Byron WEBSTER (first cousin four times removed).  The obit was clipped and there was no way of knowing when it was published and therefore, no idea when he died.

Weekly column sharing birth, marriage, and death events for people in my family tree.

Randy’s challenge for this evening is as follows: List your 16 great-grandparents in pedigree chart order. List their birth and death years and places. Figure out the dominant ethnicity or nationality of each of them. Calculate your ancestral ethnicity or nationality by adding them up for the 16 – 6.25% for each (obviously, this is approximate). If you don’t know all 16 of your great-grandparents, then do it for the last full generation you have. Write your own blog post, or make a comment on Facebook or in this post.

Prompt:  Have a family member be a guest blogger. Let a family member take the reins and provide a different perspective for a post or two. If you can’t find anyone to take the job, interview a relative and spotlight the person yourself.

Weekly column sharing birth, marriage, and death events for people in my family tree.

The topic for the 22nd edition of Carnival of Central and Eastern European Genealogy is roadblocks and breakthrough encountered during your genealogy research.