This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, the prompt is “Mistake”. This week I will write about Mrs. Augusta (Look) Buescher, and something that happened to her that could have been avoided. A simple mistake using flammable liquids around an open flame. Augusta Look, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Look, …
This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks the prompt is “School Days”. This week Ancestry.com offered free access to their database – U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1999, so I went in and looked up some family names. Unfortunately they didn’t have a lot for the places my husband’s family lived, but I …
This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks prompt, the word is Tragedy. John Clements was my 2nd great grandfather, the son of Thomas Clements and Ann [maiden name unknown] from Warwickshire, England. John was born in about 1800 and was living in Victoria, Australia by 1856. Very late in life, in …
The topic for this week’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks post is Comedy. I decided to write about my husband’s Paternal grandmother, Helen Sadie Legare Keetley. One day while I was researching Helen in the newspapers, I came across the following article. Her “exploits” were in several newspapers across the country from Florida to New …
This will be my first post as a “Treasure Chest Tuesday”. Hopefully I can find enough interesting things to post this on a regular basis. WILL OF JOHN T. ELSWORTH Box 154 No. 9 The State of South Carolina in the name of God Amen I John T. Elsworth of the City of Charleston in …
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This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, the prompt is “Brother”. Two weeks ago I talked about the Gornowicz family, and what research I have done so far. You can read about them here. This week I decided to talk about one of the children, Franz. Frank Gornowicz was born in …
The topic for this week’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is Easy. Since it helps me get caught up quicker, I am going to make this weeks post really easy on me. I am just going to list all the surnames that I have proven for my lines so far. Absalom Anderson Cain Carey Champ …
This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, the prompt is “Challenging”. I already wrote about some of the challenges in my genealogy research with the “Keetley” and “Brinson” surnames back in Week 2, which you can read about here and here. Another family name that has been challenging to research is …
This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, the prompt is “Reunion”. I have only been to 2 family reunions growing up. The Chislett and the Absalom families. The Chislett family reunion took place in 7 March 1982 at the Allansford Recreation Reserve. The Chislett Story, was written before the reunion. The …
This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, the prompt is “Legend”. Like every family, there is at least one story of being related to someone famous and mine is no different. Well my husband’s paternal line anyway. The “Keetley” surname has been difficult to trace as I’ve said before in other …