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Saturday Night Fun

SNGF: My Maternal Grandfather’s Paternal Line

Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun exercise tonight is as follows: Find a living male person in your database from your maternal grandfather’s patrilineal line who could take a Y-DNA test.   Then, we are tasked to answer several questions.  Here are my responses – fortunately, this was a very easy topic for me given all the testing […]

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My Genea-Wish List

This week Randy’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun is one I could do quite easily without a second thought.  Here’s the task: 1)  Think of the genealogy related wishes you have – what education, database, or information would make your genealogy research dreams come true?  Be specific – as many wishes as you want to list!

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SNGF: Remember When?

Tonight’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun prompts us to recall a day from when we were 12 years old. 1) Remember when you were 12 years old? On a summer day out of school? What memory do you have of fun activities? 2) Tell us about that memory (just one – you can do more later

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SNGF: Dream Database

This week @ GeneaMusings Randy has asked us to consider what our dream database would be Define one or more genealogy or family history databases, that are not currently online, that would really help you in your research. Where does this database currently reside? What are some of the things people are wishing for?? 1)Randy

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My #15

I really enjoy Randy’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun assignments.  Sometimes they really give you an opportunity to look at someone in your file who may not get much attention, or at least you haven’t visited in awhile.   So, this week’s assignment was as follows: 1. Figure out the age of your father this year:  my

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My Genealogy Trading Card

Randy had a cool idea for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun.  Our task was to create a Genealogy Trading Card. Thus, I made mine and present it to you. I’ve added it to my sidebar for now – very cool.

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – My 16

I’m going to take Randy up on his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun for August 8, 2009.  Not because of the intent to document my ethnicity for that is very easy – to the best of my current knowledge, all (with the exception of 1) of my ancestors as far as I can trace have been

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Saturday Night Fun This Week

I’m feeling all inspired again with my genealogy blogging! I’ve gotten some great thoughts from reading others’ blogs. For this post, I’m taking Randy up on his last Saturday Night Fun quest, Where Were They in 1909? The task was as follows: 1) Which of your ancestors were alive in 1909? 2) Tell us where

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Number 1000

On Saturday night, Randy shared on his blog his experience trying to locate the 1,000th person in his database, and invited us all to do the same. Well, I thought, this should be easy enough. Well, I found them, but it was not as straightfoward as I thought!  I use TNG: The Next Generation of

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