Saturday Night Genealogy Fun

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun — Your 2023 “Dear Genea-Santa” Letter

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It’s Saturday Night again – 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

(Photo courtesy of footnoteMaven)

Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. Here’s your chance to sit on Genea-Santa’s lap (virtually) and tell him your Christmas genealogy-oriented wish list:

1) Write your 2023 Genea-Santa letter. Have you been a good genealogy girl or boy? What genealogy-oriented items are on your Christmas wish list? They could be family history items, technology items, or things that you want to pursue in your ancestral quest.

Dear Santa,

I believe I have been a good genealogy girl during the past year. Even though I don’t seem to have been as focused as in the past, I have diligently worked to research and share my information about my ancestors. I have also spent time researching and sharing information about Nemaha countians serving in the military, especially those who received a Purple Heart.

So Santa, I’m hoping that you will reward me for my efforts by granting me some of my genealogy wishes.

First, I’m hoping you will help me break thru some of my brickwalls.

• James Crawford — help me identify his parents or some siblings
• Salome Carpenter — help me identify her parents
• Crandall line — help me prove / disprove a connection between Hampton Lillibridge Crandall and Elder John Crandall
• Currey — help me find additional sources to prove or disprove my Hiram Currey lineage from Hiram M. Currey of Leavenworth County, Kansas to HIram M. Currey, lawyer of Peoria County, Illinois to the Hiram M. Currey, the treasurer of Ohio.

Santa, I know you are a miracle worker. But when it comes to genealogy, I realize that I need to do some of the work to help those miracles happen. Thus, I’m hoping that you will help make the following resources available.

• Continued digitization of Kansas newspapers, especially the Dodge City and Woodson county newspapers from 1923 to the 1960s.
• Male descendants of Alexander Crawford (1767-1823 of Pulaski County, KY), William Crawford (1748-1809 of Pulaski County, KY) willing to do a yDNA test
• Ancestry DNA tools to make it easier to identify common ancestors (like a chromosome browser)
• Continued digitization of records, manuscripts, books and the ability to easily access them (i.e. from home)
• Fellow researchers willing to work together researching common ancestors

Then, Santa, I’m going to ‘copy’ from Randy Seaver’s list of wishes. Santa, by granting these wishes, all genealogists would benefit.

* That more genealogy researchers would post their extensive family trees on Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch with many source citations so that there would be more opportunity to find the common ancestors of my DNA matches.

*  That Ancestry.com provides all of their source citations to Evidence Explained standards, and  that they would fix the errors in their big tree which we can’t see, but is used for the ThruLines and potential ancestors.  Also, that AncestryDNA provides a chromosome browser so we can triangulate matches better.

*  That FamilySearch makes more of their digitized microfilmed collections available from home.  Also, that they make adding Source information to person profiles in FamilySearch Family Tree easier.

*  That MyHeritage provides many more Record Matches to my tree there, and also provide “Theory of Family Relativity” connections with my DNA matches.  Also, that they continue to enhance the MyHeritage collections, the search function, the DNA product, and the Photo collection.  

*  That all of the desktop genealogy software programs will synchronize with the online family trees at Ancestry, FamilySearch, MyHeritage and Findmypast without losing any information.

*  That WikiTree and Geni online collaborative trees would synchronize with RootsMagic and other software programs similar to the Ancestry and FamilySearch synchronization efforts.

Randy Seavers’ Saturday Night Genealogy Fun posted 2 Dec 2023 https://www.geneamusings.com/2023/12/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-your-2023.html

So Santa, I’m hoping that you are working miracles and that at least some of these wishes will be announced during RootsTech 2024.