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Ahnentafel Roulette!

This week’s Genea-Musings: Saturday Night Genealogy Fun mission is ‘Ahnentafel Roulette.’ This mission has three steps: Figure out how old your great-grandfather, or other ancestor, would he be if he had lived. Then, divide this number by 4 and round the answer off to a whole number. This is your “roulette number.” Use your pedigree charts or your family tree genealogy software program to find the person with that number

Tombstone Tuesday – Robert J. Crist

This is the tombstone of Robert J. and Alice K. (Whiteleather) Crist.    They are buried in Moultrie Chapel Cemetery, West Township, Columbiana County, Ohio.    They are both cousins of mine, but from different ancestral lines.  Robert is, of course, from my Crist line, and Alice is from my Sanor/Zehner line.  Both of these families settled in northeastern Ohio in the early part of the 19th century. This tombstone has

Wordless Wednesday – 12 August 2009

My great-grandparents again; this time with their daughters. The one on the left is my grandmother.Click here to see their wedding photo, which I posted previously.