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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Where Were Your Ancestors 80 Years Ago?

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, please!): 1)  Determine where your ancestral families were on 1 April 1940 - 80 years ago when the U.S. census was taken. 2)  List them, their family members, their birth years, and their residence location (as close as possible).  Do you have a photograph of their residence from about that time, and does the residence still exist? 3)  Tell us all about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post. 1. My paternal grandfather, Fletcher Pearson , resided with his parents,  George  W. Pearson (born 1892) and Gursie Gable Pearson (born 1896) -  alongside his siblings: Appleonia, George, Arthur, Mary Ann, Robert, Charline, Pauline, and Phono. They  lived in   Calhoun  County, Mississippi ....

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun- Where Were They 100 Years Ago

1)  Determine where your ancestral families were on 18 May 1919 - 100 years ago. 2)  List them, their family members, their birth years, and their residence location (as close as possible).  Do you have a photograph of their residence from about that time, and does the residence still exist? 3)  Tell us all about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post. 1.  My paternal ( father's side) great-grandparents  George  W. Pearson (born 1892) and Gursie (Gable) Pearson (born 1896)  lived at Calhoun  County, Mississippi with their children: Fletcher Pearson (born 1919), Appleonia (Pearson) White (born 1920), George A. Pearson (born 1924), Arthur C. Pearson Sr. (born 1928), Mary Ann (Pearson)  Kincaid ( born 1930), Robert L. Pearson ( born 1933), Charline S. (Pearson) Davis, Pauline (Pearson) (born 1935), and Phono Pearson (born 1937). One of my cousins has a picture of the houses they lived in....