Lacie's Genealogy Blog

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:   It's  Saturday Night  again -  time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 1)  Ellen Thompson-Jennings posted 20 questions on her  Hound on the Hunt  blog two weeks ago - see  Even More Questions About Your Ancestors and Maybe A Few About You   (posted 27 June).  2)  We will do these five at a time -  Questions 16 to 20 tonight  (we did 1 through 5 three weeks ago and questions 6 through 10 two weeks ago, and 11 through 15 last week.) 3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post. If you’re into DNA which would you say you work on more? Genealogy or DNA? Or about the same? Some days more, some days less. I review my DNA matches, and make note of our relationship. Some don't h...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:   It's  Saturday Night  again -  time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 1)  Ellen Thompson-Jennings posted 20 questions on her  Hound on the Hunt  blog two weeks ago - see  Even More Questions About Your Ancestors and Maybe A Few About You   (posted 27 June).  2)  We will do these five at a time -  Questions 11 to 15 tonight  (we did 1 through 5 two weeks ago and questions 6 through 10 last week) 3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post. 11)   If money wasn’t an issue; where would you go to do genealogy research?   I would go to a number of libraries and archives that I wouldn't be able to list  here because there is so many. Here are a few of them. Visit The National Archives in Washingto...

This week's theme for the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is Reunion . I immediately thought about my dad meeting his relatives, on his father's side for the first time. I'll give you the backstory. Back in early 2016, my sister was messaging back and both with our father's 1st cousin. Our father's 1st cousin didn't know that our grandfather, Fletcher Pearson, one of her uncles, had a son. My cousin and my father exchanged phone numbers at some point in time and started to talk. I not sure how long how often they talked from Mar. 2016-Oct 2017.  Eventually, they went to each other. My father went to Michigan to just visit his friends, 2 months after was at his mother's funeral. He went to Macomb County, Michigan to see them. From his account, he said he was nervous, and when he walked through the door they said, "You look like Uncle George". Many people came to see him. The family showed him pictures and gave him a couple of them to keep. Th...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:   It's  Saturday Night  again -  time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! 1)  Ellen Thompson-Jennings posted 20 questions on her blog this week - see  Even More Questions About Your Ancestors and Maybe A Few About You  (posted 27 June).  2)  We will do these five at a time -  Questions 6 to 10 tonight  (we did 1 through 5 last week) 3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post. 6)   How many DNA companies have you tested with or transferred to? Have you tested at all the 5 major companies?  I have tested with AncestryDNA. I have not transferred my DNA. 7)  Do you have an ancestor that had a successful business? Is it still in business?   So far, I haven't found an ancestor with a business. 8)  How long ago was your last “genealogy/DNA happy dance?” I can't really recall my ...