Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 1) Pick an ancestor, any ancestor. What do you know about them? What source type(s) do you have for each item? Answer the 20 questions below about your chosen ancestor. 2) …
Category: Garrard County
Sellers Mystery
Do you ever send a request to a courthouse for documents thinking you know how all of those documents fit into your research? And once the documents arrive, you discover that one set is for a family unit not in your file? Well, that's the case with some Sellers marriage bonds that I requested from …
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
It's Saturday Night Time for Some More Genealogy Fun A) Genea-Blogger Linda Stufflebean noted that December 8th is "Pretend You Are a Time Traveler Day." Today's challenge is: Where would you go? Would you choose a person, place or event in the past or travel into the future? Would you remain an observer or would you …
County Boundaries
How adventurous were your ancestors? Would they be considered pioneers? Did they seek out new homes in the territories formed as the United States expanded westward? If so, have you paid attention to the changing boundary lines for the counties? Since my genealogy research started in Kansas where it wasn't impacted by changes in county …
Sellers
Do you have 'bushes' in your tree? For anyone looking at my Heartland Genealogy tree on Ancestry, they may easily stumble upon a 'bush' and not realize that they aren't on my ancestral tree. My Sellers research represents one such 'bush'. Over the years, I have acquired quite a bit of information about the family …
Friday Finds
1840 Crawford Duff Deed Garrard County Kentucky Deeds Vol. N page 406 No 1387 James & John Crawford to Wm W DuffThis Indenture made and entered into this 13th day of Mayin the year 1840 between James Crawford & John Crawford, sonsof Isaac Crawford, who was a son-in-law of Jacob Miller, decdof the County of …
James Crawford
#Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to: 1) Pretend that you are one of the subjects on the Who Do You Think You Are? show on television.2) Which of your ancestors (maximum of two) would be featured on …
Boyle’s Company
When researching your family history, have you ever read a county history? I'm not referring to browsing those sections where you think your family might be found but actually reading the history starting on page 1. Well, I have to admit that I've fallen into the 'browser' method in the past. As I'm trying to …
Crossing Paths 2
As you are researching your ancestors do you ever find a family living in the same county as ancestors or cousins from a totally different branch of your tree? That's been my experience recently. Yesterday, while following up on a comment on a blog post about a reader's potential connection to my Garrard County, Kentucky …
Crawford Tree Issues
I'm sure we can all agree that each of us needs to work toward having as accurate a family tree as possible. However, I'm willing to admit and hopefully you are too that there could be a mistake or two or several in my tree. Even with an effort to separate out people of the …