A Legend, by definition is “a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated.“ Put your hand up if you’ve been told that you have an ancestor who arrived on the Mayflower? I’ve been told that my Mother’s side of the family did. How about someone in your family who married a Native American…
2021 brings with it another whole year of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge. Here we are again back at the beginning in Week # 1 and very fittingly, the first writing prompt is Beginnings. “Oh, let’s go back to the start…” I’ve already gone over the story of how I began to be interested…
The Paris Library A Novel by Janet Skeslien Charles I was so excited to read this book about a library in Paris in 1939. The cover art is absolutely gorgeous. Historical fiction, especially anything to do with WW2, is my go-to genre. I was especially interested to read about a library in Paris after recently…
2020 Year End Review of Finding My Ancestors Blog I’m participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge and we are now in the final week of the challenge!! I decided to start this family history blog back in December of 2018. So it has been two years already! How can that be possible?! This…
The other day I read Amy Johnson Crow’s email, specifically her description of this week’s challenge which reads “Week 51’s theme is “Winter.” Here in the northern hemisphere, we will be welcoming winter on December 21……..How would winter have affected your ancestors? Any Snow, Winters, or Frosts in the family tree?” So I thought, no, we…
I’m participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestor Challenge and the writing prompt for Week # 50 is Witness to History. It sure seems like this year, 2020 has been something for the history books doesn’t it? I mean, think about it… a global pandemic, a global movement for racial justice, the Australian bush fires,…
I’m participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge this year. We are at Week # 49 and the writing prompt is OOPS. Oh, my gosh. Where do I start?! Here’s a list of mistakes I made when starting to research my family history. I’m sure that I’m not alone in some of these oopsies.…
In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge and for this week, the writing prompt is “Gratitude.” This is a big one, isn’t it? Especially for this year. 2020 has been one heck of a ride hasn’t it? I feel like this screenshot of the autofill feature on a…
I’m participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge and this week’s writing prompt is GOOD DEEDS. If you’re looking to help out in the Genealogy world, here are some places you can go to help out by doing a good deed or two. Many of these ideas can be done from the comfort of…
I’m participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge. The writing prompt for this week is “Different Language.” One of the biggest stumbling blocks in researching our genealogy that I’ve come across is how do I trace a family tree when all of the records are recorded in a different language? If there is one…
