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 …
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 …