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...