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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun- Google Maps of Ancestral Homes

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:   It's  Saturday Night  again -  Time for some 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)   Identify an ancestral home address ( preferably one with a street address...) for one of your ancestral families (You do know where they lived, don't you?  If not, consult the 1900 to 1940 US Census records, or City Directories). 2)  Go to Google Maps ( http://maps.google.com ) and enter the street address (and city/town if necessary - usually you can pick from a list) for your selected ancestral home. 3)  Look at the street map, the satellite map, and the street view.  Zoom in or out, or manipulate the image as you wish. 4)  Tell us or show us your map images in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post. ...

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Where Were Your Ancestral Families in 1920?

  Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:   It's  Saturday Night  again -  time for some 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) Where did your ancestral families reside in 1920?  Do you know their addresses or locations?   Have you visited the home? Who was enumerated in the 1920 in each family?  Are any of your ancestral families missing from the 1920 U.S. Census even if they should be in the census? 2)  Put it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a link in a comment to this post. 1)  Grandparents:  The Pearson family resided at 188 Slate Springs & Hardin Road in Beat 5, Calhoun County, Mississippi. The household included: George Pearson  -- head of household, male, mulatto, age 25, married, born in MS, father...