It’s Saturday night, which means it’s time for Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun over at Geneamusings. The mission tonight is: 1)Â Go into your Genealogy Management Program (GMP; either software on your computer, or an online family tree) and figure out how to Count how many surnames you have in your family tree database. […]
Archive for March, 2011
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Posted in Baker, Dool, Fee, Humphreys, St. John, Summerville, Williams on March 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I thought, in honour of St. Patrick’s Day, I would post those lines of my family that hail – directly or indirectly – from Ireland. Christopher Summerville/Somerville (1822-1901)Â & Elizabeth Humphreys/Humphries (1820-1886) The Summervilles emigrated from around Enniskillin, Northern Ireland to Sharon, Ontario, Canada in 1846. They travelled with three of their children, one of whom […]
Thomas Ansted (ca 1764-1846)
Posted in Ansted, tagged Census data, Death registration, Marriage record, Newspapers, Will on March 13, 2011 | 5 Comments »
My great-great-great-great-great grandfather Thomas Ansted was born around 1764, likely in London, England. I hope to eventually find solid information on his birth, but for now the best I can find is his death certificate that suggests his birth would have been around 1764. I don’t have any information on Thomas’ childhood or young adulthood at […]
SNGF – New Genealogy Blogs
Posted in General, tagged SNGF on March 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It’s time for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, courtesy of Randy Seaver at Gena-Musings. The mission, should we decide to accept it, is to: 1) Go to the Geneabloggers website – www.geneabloggers.com – and look for the post New Genealogy Blogs March 12, 2011. 2) Pick out at least five blogs from this list that interest […]