This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, the prompt is “Same Name”. My father-in-law, William, was apparently named for his great uncle William Keetley according to some writing in his baby book about why he was given his particular name. The writing was placed there by his mother, Helen (Legare) Keetley. …
This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, the prompt is “Long Line”. One of my husband’s lines descend from a very long line of Daniel Legare’s. This line of Legare has been in the U.S. since at least 1691. This is when Francois Legare and his 2 sons, Daniel and Stephen, …
This week in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, the prompt is Fresh Start. I tried to keep up last year, and fell behind but I’m hoping to do better this year. This week I decided that the procrastinating I’ve been doing for the last several years is not working for me anymore. …
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 …