Tag Archives: Family: Millett

The 17th edition of the Carnival of Irish Heritage & Culture is a Genealogy treasure “show and tell.” Genealogists are treasure hunters of a different kind. Instead of searching for riches, we dig for information. Instead of prizing gold, we value documents – the visual proof of the life stories of families that have passed before us. Share with us the image of and the story behind a document (or documents) that have been valuable to you during your search for an Irish branch of your family. How and where […]

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.

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

The challenge for Randy’s Saturday Night Fun is: Which of your ancestors were alive in 1909? Tell us where your ancestral families were living in 1909. What country, state, county,  city/town, etc. Who was in the family at the time? Use the 1910 census as “close enough.” Have you found each of these families in the 1910 census? Write a blog post about your response. Or write a comment to this post. Have fun. Learn something!

The theme for the 13th edition of the Carnival of Irish Heritage and Culture is Irish names. Share with us the surnames in your Irish family tree, but don’t just stop there. Do a little research and tell us the origin of one or more of those surnames, the stories of how they might have changed over the years, or tales of how they’ve been mixed up and misspelled, etc. Want to focus on your family’s given names instead? Share with us the story of your ancestors’ Irish first names […]

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 in. Tell us the family name and the county/state. Go to the FHL Catalog, find the resources for that county/state. Identify at least three items from the FHL Catalog that you need to look into in an effort to further your knowledge about that family’s […]