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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Where Were Your Ancestors 80 Years Ago?

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) Determine where your ancestral families were on 1 April 1940 - 80 years ago when the U.S. census was taken.


2)  List them, their family members, their birth years, and their residence location (as close as possible).  Do you have a photograph of their residence from about that time, and does the residence still exist?

3)  Tell us all about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post.


1. My paternal grandfather, Fletcher Pearson, resided with his parents, George W. Pearson (born 1892) and Gursie Gable Pearson (born 1896) - alongside his siblings: Appleonia, George, Arthur, Mary Ann, Robert, Charline, Pauline, and Phono. They lived in Calhoun County, Mississippi. My 1st cousin 1x removed has a picture of the house in which the family lived in.


2. My paternal great-grandparents, Joe Griggs Harlan (abt. 1890) and Anna McDaniel Harlan (born abt. 1898) lived in Macon, Mississippi with their younger children; Fletcher, Louis, Amanda, my grandmother, and Willis.



3. My maternal great-grandparents, Anthony Tony Armstead  (born 1909) and Clara Loretta Scott Armstead  (born 1904) resided at 499 St. Marks Avenue in Brooklyn N.Y with their first son named Anthony (born 1940).



4. My maternal great-grandparents, Earnest Rogers (born 1916) and Lela R. Rogers Rogers (born 1918) resided at 33 Church Street in Gadsden, Alabama. My grandmother has a picture of the house.




5. My maternal (paternal line) great-grandfather Charles W. Armstead (born abt. 1875) lived in Richmond, Virginia. His wife Susie M. Kenny died in Mar of 1919. He had 7 children with Susie. Lettie (Armstead) Wilson (born 1897), Charles W. Armstead II (born 1902), Susie Armstead (born abt. 1906), Annette Armstead (born abt 1907), Anthony T. Armstead (born 1909), Cruso Armstead (born 1910), and Emma G. (Armstead) Alexander. Charles had another daughter with a previous relationship. Her name is Catherine P. (Armstead) Alexander (born 1894).

So I have 13 direct ancestors living at this time, 80 years ago. 3 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, and five 2nd great-grandparents.

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