It turns out that finding pictures, and therefore visual confirmation of beard vs clean shaven, wasn’t easy. There are more male (and female too) relatives that I don’t have an identified pictures of than I had thought. To start with …
How Many of My Ancestors Had a Beard? – 52 Ancestors #45 Read more »
I decided to use this topic to make a visual way to track my direct ancestors deaths, to see what information I have about each of them. This spreadsheet shows through my g-g-grandparents who I have death information of any …
What Caused My Ancestors’ Death? – 52 Ancestors # 43 Read more »
I wrote about my “black sheep” ancestor, John Salt in # 26. Briefly, the story is that he had dallied with one young woman promising marriage and then married another (in 1809). There are papers from court showing that he …
How Much Conflict Was There? – 52 Ancestors, # 42 Read more »
I was raised in the middle of Indiana until high school, and so I learned about basketball and to like it as a sport. Basketball was a big school sport, followed by the students enthusiastically. When Sports came up as the …
For the theme this time I decided to look for whether I had any tenth great grandparents in my family database. I was pretty sure I did, thinking of a couple of family lines that I know go back a …
Who Are My Tenth Great Grandparents? – 52 Ancestors, # 40 Read more »