Do you research the descendants of your ancestors? Over the years, I've learned that the more I know about the children of an ancestor and the families of those children, the easier it is to locate information about the ancestor. Thus, my genealogy file contains information on a lot of descendants. And that research has …
Month: November 2021
Plane Down
Well, a Find a Grave memorial has done it again. They have just enough information about a military service member to prompt me to find more. This time, it is a second cousin twice removed on my Thompson line, Second Lieutenant Gene Marion Ashmore. Thanks to the picture on Find a Grave, I was able …
Genealogy Stats
#SaturdayNightGenealogyFun It's Saturday Night - Time for more Genealogy Fun! Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1) If you have your family tree research in a Genealogy Management Program (GMP), whether a computer software program or an online family tree, figure out how to find how many persons, places, sources, etc. are in your database (hint: the Help button …
Rest of Story – Hers
I recently wrote about Ernest Eugene Ricketts who was captured while serving for the U.S. Navy, help prisoner at Cabannatun and rescued by the Army Rangers. However, there is another side to his story -- and that is her story. Ernest Rickett married Alice Mok on September 20, 1937 in Shanghai, China. Ernest Rickett was …
Rest of the Story
When researching a distant cousin, do you ever run across some information about that cousin that just begs you to research more of the story? Well, that's the case with one of the descendants of William Taylor Thompson that I'm researching. The Find a Grave site for Ernest Eugene Rickett contains a copy of an …
Throwback Thursday
2006 Thanksgiving Soccer Game
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'Do you ever run across some information that does fill in the birth-marriage-or-death blanks that leave a lot of questions. That's the situation I'm in as I research descendants of my ancestor, William Taylor Thompson. Meredith C. Hall's record on Find a Grave indicates he or she died 1 Mar 1942 at sea. Based on …
RM and the FamilySearch Tree
Have you thought about what happens to all of the work you've put into the research of your family after you are gone? Are you one of those lucky ones who have someone younger willing to take it over? Unfortunately, I don't believe I will be so fortunate. Thus, I have sought out ways to …
County Histories
Have you heard the term, 'Mug Book'? Have you used a 'mug book'? When I first started my genealogy journey, I used a lot of what some call 'mug books' before I ever heard the term. The blog post, Ancestor Biographies Breathe Life into Family History, contains an explanation of this term. As I'm updating …
Migration Maps
#SaturdayNightGenealogyFun Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: This SNGF is based on the Migration map that my friend J. Paul Hawthorne made on Facebook on 18 November. He used Birth dates and Places for his paternal line. 1) For this week's SNGF, make your own migration map …