This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks post, the prompt is “At the Cemetery”. On 15 June 2012, my husband and I decided to take our children on a road trip to see his Aunt in Minnesota. Most of his maternal lines were from Minnesota so he reluctantly let me plan …
This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, the prompt is “Military”. Casper Born, son of Casper Born and Catherine (maiden name unknown), was born in 1844 in Germany. He immigrated to the U.S. with his parents and siblings in 1855. They settled in Dahlgren, Carver County, Minnesota. When Casper was 20 …
This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, the prompt is At Worship. I pondered this one for a while as I couldn’t easily come up with something to write about. I know of only a couple of religions that my research has revealed so far, but nothing worth really writing about. …
This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, the prompt is “Out of Place”. I was looking at a list of my immigrant ancestors (and some of my collateral lines), and everyone moved to Australia, except one. Margaret Russell, a child of my 3rd great grandparents. She was one of at least …
For Week 15 of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, the topic is DNA. This could have been a really long post once I got started writing, but I figured I would keep it short and simple. I wasn’t really sure whether I should talk about the DNA matches I have worked with, …
This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, the prompt is “Brick Wall”. My biggest brick wall so far for my family research would be my Paternal great grandmother, Ethel Driver. Ethel was born in 1890 in Hotham, Victoria, Australia. Her birth is listed in the Australian Records Index at Ancestry.com. Her …
For this week of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, I decided to write about my husband’s Paternal Grand Aunt, Rachael McClellan Legare. Rachael was born 24 October 1927 in Awendaw, Charleston County, South Carolina. She was the daughter of Daniel J. Legare and Helen Sadie Elliott. The first newspaper article I found …
This week’s post for Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks prompt, is the number 12. I was thinking about what I could write, and came up with a lot of ideas. Someone aged 12 years. Someone who was born or died in December. Someone who had 12 kids. #12 on an Ahnentafel list. …
For Week 11 of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, the topic is Large Family. My 3rd great grandparents, William Absalom and Mary Ann Rose, have the largest family of all my relatives that I have found so far. They had a total of 16 children. I cannot imagine having that many mouths …
For Week 10 of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, I chose to write about my grand uncle, my maternal grandfather’s brother. Hector Meredith McKenzie, or “Hec” as he was known, was born in 1907 to Robert McKenzie and Eliza Jane Clements of “Spring Valley”, Woodford, Victoria, Australia. I don’t remember much about …