The focus of the 103rd Carnival of Genealogy, hosted by Jasia at Creative Gene, is Women’s History. March 8th is International Women’s Day and the month of March is Women’s History Month in the United States. (And, in case you’re interested, Canada’s is in October!) When I thought about what I could contribute to the Carnival, it seemed logical […]
Archive for February, 2011
Dionysia Ansted (1827-1898)
Posted in Ansted, Burton, tagged Baptism record, Burial record, Census data, City directories, Marriage record, Newspapers, Passenger lists, Tombstone on February 27, 2011 | 6 Comments »
SNGF – Go for a better Google search
Posted in General, tagged SNGF on February 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Saturday night, which means it’s time for Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge as posted at Genea-Musings. The mission this week is to: 1) Go to genea-blogger Randy Majors website (http://www.randymajors.com/). 2) Add his blog to your RSS reader, if you don’t have it already. 3) Read his blog post AncestorSearch using Google Custom Search […]
Wordless Wednesday – Johnson sisters, 1906
Posted in Johnson, tagged Photographs on February 16, 2011 | 2 Comments »
My great-grandmother Margaret Johnson (r)Â and her older sister Anna (l) in 1906.
Wordless Wednesday – Johnson sisters
Posted in Johnson, tagged Photographs on February 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
My great-grandmother Margaret Johnson (r) and her sister Anna (l). They would have been about 5 and 8 in this picture, which was taken in 1888.
The best laid plans…: Update on the Ansteds
Posted in Ansted on February 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
As I stated in a previous post, when I set out my genealogy goals for 2011, I thought it would be relatively simple to write up the biographies for the two people I had significant information about in my Ansted line. In December, I had information on my great-great-great grandmother Dionysia Ansted and her father […]