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…
I’m participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge. The writing prompt for this week is On The Map. Every once in a while Ancestry releases updated Ethnicity Results for our DNA tests. I thought that was quite fitting. In case you are thinking, wait a second…how is it possible that my DNA could change?!…
The writing prompt for Week # 32 of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors challenge is SMALL. In my mind nothing to do with our family’s history is small, because even the smallest detail can steer you into something so fantastic. Big things often have small beginnings I’ve talked quite a few times about my paternal…
This week for Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge the writing prompt is The Old Country. When I looked up the definition it states the native country of a person who has gone to live abroad. My Family Now for myself, I have lived in Canada my entire life, but I suppose the Old Country…
This week for Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge the prompt is Newsworthy. How about a murder?! I’d say that was newsworthy. One of the first things I remember finding when I started researching our family tree all those years ago was a record of an ancestor being murdered. The person I’m referring to was…
I have a plethora of ideas for this week’s writing prompt! We are in Week # 28 in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge and this week we are writing about MULTIPLE. I have a few relatives that have had multiple spouses. Quite a few that have had multiple children. Some that have had multiple…
It seems every week of this 52 Ancestors Challenge by Amy Johnson-Crow starts with some brainstorming for me. I enjoy the challenge. This week’s writing prompt is SOLO. As far as ancestry goes, the first idea that comes to mind is to feature an ancestor that was an only child. The first one that I…
52 Ancestors : Week # 25 – Unexpected Welcome to those of you who are finding your way here from Amy Johnson Crow’s weekly email! I’m so happy that you are here! Please feel free to like this post, leave a comment or follow my blog. Isn’t it true that sometimes in life you just…
The writing prompt for Amy Johnson-Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge this week is HANDED DOWN. Looking around the house, I don’t have a whole lot of treasures that have been handed down to me. However, the things I do have I want to ensure that they are handed down to the next generation, if they are…
I’m participating in Amy Johnson-Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge. This is week # 17. The writing prompt is land. As always, Amy assures is that these prompts are up for interpretation so here goes…When I think of land, the first thing (funny enough) that popped in to my head was the Woody Guthrie song “This Land…
