2016 A2Z Challenge… A2Z [2016] Reflection 30 Apr 2021May 2, 2022 The #AtoZChallenge 2016 Reflection is late. Almost five (5) years late with my deepest apologies. 2016 was my first time in the activity and I was not aware there was…
Genealogy… DNA Matches: Not For the Faint of Heart 29 Jan 2019 I have been trying to understand. Really, I have. Had purchased three major tests: AncestryDNA (2016), LivingDNA (2017) and FamilyTreeDNA (2018). Got the gobbledygook results from the first, and transferred…
Your Roots Are Showing Junior’s 7 Patriots, 1: Daniel SKINNER 2 Apr 2018April 2, 2018 A while ago, I mentioned that I would help my son, Junior, trace his late grandmother's side of the family - not mine. When he was small, he had helped…
Your Roots Are Showing DNA: The New (Genealogy) Age 8 Mar 2017April 2, 2018 I've been doing genealogy since I was nine years old — or for 45 years, or since 1972, but, whichever way you look at it, it is a very long…
Your Roots Are Showing Pieces of Pain, Parts of the Past 19 Dec 2016March 28, 2018 Genealogy can be a very lonely hobby. I've been at it for over 40 years and am now just benefiting from it, this past year (late 2015-2016). Three younger cousins…
Genealogy… Sunday’s Obituary: Author of Two Church Books Dies in Nauvoo 12 Nov 2016April 30, 2018 Taken from THE SAINTS' HERALD, 1961FB20 Mabel A. [SANFORD] ATKINSON, author of Joseph's Beautiful City (1939; image shown above) and The Land Shadowing with Wings (1952), died Sunday, January 22,…
Your Roots Are Showing My Dead (Zombie) Tree? 28 Mar 2016March 31, 2018 I have always liked a good Blame Game. In Facebook, on Saturday (26 April 2016), I saw what I call a "Dead Tree." It is your genealogy tree, but instead of the names…
Your Roots Are Showing You Need All the Help You Can Get 3 Mar 2016March 31, 2018 1972 <= yes, that's how long I've been doing genealogy. I started when I was 9-years-old. I've made mistakes. The important thing: I have learned from them! I have done four…
Genealogy… #52Ancestors (3) Floyd Reginald ROSS WWII [2C2R] 16 Jan 2016May 2, 2018 FLOYD REGINALD ROSS, born 17APR1921 to Dr. John Arthur ROSS, M.D. (1885-1959) and the former IDA MAUD MAW (1884-1973) in Antler, Saskatchewan, was the fifth of ten children (6 boys, 4…
Your Roots Are Showing I have a Photo Puzzle 31 Dec 2015March 31, 2018 BACK ROW (LEFT to RIGHT): Levi Goddard [01-006], Mary Johnston [08-xxx] & Ella McCort-Hammond [08-011] FRONT ROW: Malvina “Vimy” Atkinson [01-005], Minnie Johnston-McCort [08-002] & Evaline “Eva” Atkinson-Goddard [01-003] LET’S…
Your Roots Are Showing OCTOBER: Information Overload #12FamilyFinds 4 Nov 2015April 18, 2018 This past week has been slightly overwhelming. An e-mail showed up from an old genealogy contact I have not heard from in over four (4) years. Howard lives in Australia…
Your Roots Are Showing Can YOU Be More? #12FamilyFinds 7 Sep 2015May 1, 2018 Hullo, my name is Rabbit .. And I'm a genealogist! These simple words mean so many different things to an equally different group of people. To the misinformed, you are…
Your Roots Are Showing Yes, Wendy, I Have More Information #12FamilyFinds 19 Jul 2015April 1, 2018 Not too long ago, Wendy commented about my #52Ancestors posting from Week 11 (16MAR2014) regarding my 2x Great Grandparents from my father's maternal side. No, the information is not new,…
Your Roots Are Showing Have You Met Mary Ann? #12FamilyFinds 4 Jun 2015April 2, 2018 My memory is failing, have I introduced you to Mary Ann KELLAM? We met in Barrie, Ontario at The ATKINSON Family Reunion in 1982. (Sort of.). It was at that…
Your Roots Are Showing How I Am Related to: Linda Miller! (3C1R) 3 Jun 2015April 2, 2018 I think I started something ... maybe Yesterday, I supplied a chart of my connection to Floyd Reginald ROSS (2C2R), in response to a comment last month from NAME. Linda…
Your Roots Are Showing How Am I Related to: Floyd Reginald ROSS? (2C2R) 2 Jun 2015April 2, 2018 Last month, I got a comment from a distant cousin asking how I connect, so I tried the A.J.Jacobs approach first: Floyd Reginald ROSS > his mother, Ida Maud (MAW)…
Your Roots Are Showing The Next Generation of The Family (Part One) 27 Apr 2015April 4, 2018 These charts are listed in birth order. These charts are the families of the Children of Thomas ATKINSON and Bethia (KIDD), my third Great Grandparents Eldest son, Robert (2x Great…
Your Roots Are Showing 3x Great Grand Parents: (KIDD) ATKINSON 27 Apr 2015April 18, 2018 I am descended from (3) Thomas II I have information on most of the family's history -- land records, WWI/ CEF records, obituaries and photos of gravestones. SLR®
Your Roots Are Showing They Were Left Behind 27 Apr 2015April 4, 2018 They left in 1833 from England to New York City en-route to York, Upper Canada (now Toronto, Ontario), with two bachelor sons and a pregnant daughter, her husband and six…
Your Roots Are Showing Finally: the Grave of a DAR Patriot 23 Mar 2015March 28, 2018 I've written a few times about Daniel, Junior's 5-times great-grandfather An American Revolutionary Patriot Lies Here, 26 JAN 2013, and Sunday’s Obituary: 1846 – Daniel SKINNER, GAR (DAR Patriot), 23 DEC 2012…