This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, the prompt is “You”. Writing or talking about myself is something I usually don’t like to do, but I will try my best to give a quick overview of who I am. I was born in 1972 in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. I am the …
This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, the prompt is Transportation. Most people in the U.S. that I have talked to, think that because I come from Australia, my ancestors were convicts, but that is not the case. So far I have not found any ancestors that were convicts, most of …
This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, the prompt is Context. A few weeks ago I wrote about Jack Keetley, a “Legend”, who rode for the Pony Express in Missouri and had a town named after him in Utah. In this post I will write about some of the family members …
This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, the prompt is “Harvest”. Casper Born, my husband’s 2x great grandfather, lived in Dahlgren, Carver County, Minnesota. He was born in 1844 and died in 1901. While searching newspapers I came across the following article in the Weekly Valley Herald, dated 13 October 1898. …
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 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 …