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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Your Great-Grandparents Locations

 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):

1)  We all have 8 biological great-grandparents.  Where and when were they born, where and when did they marry, and where and when did they die?

2)  Tell us in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or on Facebook.  Be sure to leave a comment with a link to your blog post on this post.

a)  Paternal great-grands:

George Pearson - born in 1891 in Calhoun, MS., died in 1962 in  Calhoun, MS.

married to Gursie Gable - born 1896 in Calhoun, MS., died 1963 in Calhoun, MS.

Joe Griggs Harlan - born 1890 in Mississippi

Married to Anna McDaniel - born in 1894 in Mississippi, died in 1988 in Mississippi.

b)  Maternal great-grands:

Anthony Tony Armstead - born 1909 in Richmond, VA., died in 2002 in Penn Yates, NY.

Married 1931 in Brooklyn, NYC to Clara Loretta Scott - born 1904 in Vestal, NY died 1998 in Binghamton, NY.

Earnest Rogers - born 1916 in Marion, AL., died 1990 in Gadsden, AL.

Married 1938 in Gadsden, AL to Lela R Rogers - born 1918 in Marion, AL died in 1984 in Gadsden, AL.

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