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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - The Stars of Your WDYTYA Show

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!



Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:

1) Pretend that you are one of the subjects on the Who Do You Think You Are? show on television.

2) Which of your ancestors (maximum of two) would be featured on your hour-long show? What stories would be told, and what places would you visit?

3) Tell us about it on your own blog, in comments to this blog post, or in a Note or Comment on Facebook.


One ancestor that would be featured would be my great-grandmother, Clara Loretta Scott.

Clara was adopted by her aunt (her father's sister) and uncle. She had two brothers (and a potential full-blooded sister that died when Clara was a baby and probably never knew about) that were put in the orphanage. Why were they put in the orphanage? What was their life like there? What issues or situations were happening that made them be placed in a children's home (abuse, unsafe environment)? What happened to her parents afterward? (Clara's biological father went on to have other children with Clara's potential biological mother's cousin. Her potential bio mother moved to Pennsylvania, got married, had one son and died in the early 1920s).

I would travel to Broome County, New York. The genealogists can hopefully find newspapers, adoption, jail, orphanage records, and potentially court records. Maybe a person who lived in the orphanage can give context on what it was like to live there.


The other ancestor would be my grandfather, Fletcher Pearson. I would explore his WWII experience. What was it like (army training)? What places did his unit(s) travel to? What did he see, smell, hear, taste, and touch?


We would visit Calhoun County, Mississippi where life started for him. Then go to Camp Shelby where his training was held. Then the National Archives in St. Louis Missouri to get company morning reports, personnel files, etc). Finally, we would walk in his footsteps to where he was during the war.


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