Lacie's Genealogy Blog

Hey boys and girls, it's time for more genealogy fun. Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!): 1)  Larry Smith invented six-word memoirs (see  https://www.sixwordmemoirs.com/ ).   2)  How do you want to be remembered?  What is most important to you?   What six-word memoirs would you write?   3)  Write at least one, on any subject, and the sky is no limit. 4)  Tell us about your six word memoir(s) in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post of mine, or in a comment on Twitter or Facebook in response to this post.    To do this challenge, I tried answer the question Randy gave:   How do you want to be remembered? To be honest, I found it difficult to answer this because I was thinking about how I wanted other people see me — and that felt weird to me. But discussing it about with...

  It's  Saturday Night  again -  Time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! 1)  You were born and given a forename (first name and middle name(?)) and a surname on your birth certificate. What were they? 2)  How many persons are on the  FamilySearch Family Tree  (with an exact search for a birth name) with your first and, separately, your surname? Are there any other persons with your complete first-middle-surnames? 3)  How many matches do you have when you search the  FamilySearch Historical Records    (with an exact search for a name)  with your first name, and separately, with your surname?  Are there any other persons with your complete  first-middle -surname? 4)  How many person are in the  Public Ancestry Member Tree collection    (with an exact search for a name)  with your first name and, separately, your surname? Are there any other persons with your complete  f...

Currently, I am researching and trying to prove that Rose Mott is my great-grandmother’s mother.  This matters because  my great-grandmother, Clara, was adopted by her paternal aunt. I don’t know yet if it was legal, but in addition to that, her brothers were put in an orphanage. In a life story, she wrote about herself and what she knew about her paternal ancestry -but she made no mention of her mother. This makes me assume that she did not know who her biological mother was, or at least her name. Otherwise, I think she would have included her as she did with the other ancestral names. With all that said, it’s challenging to find direct evidence so far to definitively prove their mother-daughter relationship, but I’ve actually made major progress this year, which I’ll share more about in future posts. To get back in the swing of researching this question, I decided to revisit my process. So the first thing I did was review what I have or what I know. From there ,  I crea...

It's  Saturday Night  again -  Time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! 1)  Who are your favorite genealogy researchers, speakers or writers?  Who do you learn from?  Please list ten or more genealogists who contribute to your genealogy education and experience through books, magazines, videos, podcasts, social media, websites, blogs, webinars, seminars, conferences, presentations, workshops, meetings, other ways or venues, etc. I know this assignment was originally posted in January of this year. However, I wanted to go back and review the older assignments I missed since I've been away.  I know that Randy calls for ten or more genealogists, but currently, I don't have ten or more favorites, or at least truly favorites, so the list won’t be ten people or more. That’s my adjustment to the assignment today . Crista Cowan - Crista was my first genealogy teacher via her Ancestry YouTube videos. When she is presenting, whether that be at the RootsTech...

Photo by Sixteen Miles Out on Unsplash I haven’t blogged in a while. For two years, I put this blog on private as I’d no longer had the willpower to push out blog posts the way that I did six years ago. I write a little more about this in my blog post Why Do You Do… ?  Recently, I have revamped my blog. I have unpublished posts that didn’t reflect who I was then or who I am now, or those that felt too personal to share ‘out there’. I also removed posts I wrote  just for the sake of posting content and main taining an audience,   even when  inauthentic to me. It means more to me that others feel the value and quality of what I share rather than the quantity. I am not sure how often I will post, all I know is when the inspiration and curiosity strike, that’s when it will occur. My intention for this blog is to lead with more spontaneity than usual, structured content, along with transparency, authenticity, and vulnerability to whatever degree feels right. My inte...