Julie's Genealogy & History Hub

Still catching up on Randy’s Saturday Night Challenges.  This one is from March 28 and goes a little something like this: Identify one “elusive ancestor” family (perhaps one you just found, or one you’ve not found any information about), and the county/state that they resided […]

Randy’s Saturday Night Challenge for April 9 was as follows: Provide a list of your paternal grandmother’s patrilineal line.  Answer these questions: What was your father’s mother’s maiden name? What was your father’s mother’s father’s name? What is your father’s mother’s father’s patrilineal line? That […]

Taking a cue from Randy’s Saturday Night Challenge from March 14th, I created my surname Wordle (see post).  When I was creating it, I noticed that you could run one off a blog feed, so I thought I’d give it a whirl and see what […]

I am clearly a little behind on blog posts.  Randy’s Saturday Night Challenge from March 14th was to create a Wordle using family names. My Wordle represents my direct line surnames going back at least three generation.  You can click on the image to see […]

Prompt:  Talk about the different types of technology you use in your genealogy research. Whether it’s a new search engine, a special application, or anything else “2.0,” let readers know what you’re working with, and how it’s working for you.

Prompt:  Have expertise in a specific area of study? Share your knowledge! If you’ve lived in the same town for 60 years, you have something to share. If you’re a librarian in your day job, you have something to share. If you read Civil War […]

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