Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings posts a blogging challenge every Saturday night that he calls “Saturday Night Genealogy Fun.” This week’s challenge, in honor of Veterans Day, is to pick an ancestor with a military record and write about that military service, as well as the ancestor’s tombstone. I have previously written about my Revolutionary War ancestors Christopher Truby and Michael Sanor. So for this challenge, I decided to choose an
September 4th, 2011
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
January 24th, 2010
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – Other Interests
Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings posts a blogging challenge every Saturday night that he calls “Saturday Night Genealogy Fun.” This week, he writes: “It’s Saturday Night – time for more Genealogy Fun!!Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to: * Tell us about your “other” hobbies or interests outside of genealogy and family history research, writing, speaking, etc.” So, I have decided to accept this week’s mission. Hmm, hobbies
September 13th, 2009
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – Trading Cards
This week’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge was to make a trading card of yourself. Randy Seaver (Genea-Musings) was inspired to suggest this challenge by Sheri Fenley’s (The Educated Genealogist) blog post showing her trading card. If you want to make a card for yourself, go to the Big Huge Labs website. Here is the card I created: