Saturday Night Genealogy Fun

It’s Saturday Night – 

time for more Genealogy Fun! 

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to:

1) Think of any number of genealogy events or moments that make you have a genealogy happy dance, an ah-ha moment.

As I’ve been working on my genealogy for over 40 years, there have been many ‘ah-ha’ moments over the years.

Trips

• Trips to Salt Lake City to research at the Family History Library – I was able to take two bus trips to Salt Lake to spend a week at the library. Later, a family trip to the Tetons had a ‘detour’ thru Salt Lake City where we spent a few days researching.
• Trip to Kentucky and Ohio to research at The Filson Library, the Kentucky Historical Society, the University of Kentucky library, the Preble County (OH) courthouse and the Eaton Public library.
• Trip to Oregon following the Oregon Trail and researching at Baker, LaGrande, and the Oregon Historical society.
• Trip to Des Moines to research at the Iowa Archives and the Iowa Genealogical Society library.
• Trip to Indiana to research in Warren, Montgomery and Tippecanoe counties.
• Trip to Independence Missouri to read Oregon Trail diaries (even though I didn’t find my relative.)

Research Finds

• Receiving copies of family Bible records in the mail — CRAWFORD and WELLS

DNA

• Testing my own DNA
• Testing my brothers’ and my mother’s DNA
• Connecting with a DNA match who is a grand-daughter of a 1st cousin
• Testing my brothers’ yDNA
• yDNA results that show a potential connection with descendants of two other men named James Crawford from the area of Garrard County, Kentucky
• DNA results that support my CURREY line of research

Favorite ‘Moments’

• Digitization of Newspapers
• Digitization of FamilySearch microfilm
• Seneca Public Library agreeing to become an Affiliate Library
• Any time I can connect with another researcher and exchange information!