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Happy 5th Blogiversary

Better a little late. This is my blog's 5th Anniversary which started in 2011. I'm busy this week at the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) and completely forgot about the anniversary! However, I am learning a lot about records for women and children and hope to report on successes in this blog in the future. Copyright © 2016 by Lisa Suzanne Gorrell, My Trails into the Past. All Rights Reserved.

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Where Were Your Ancestors 150 Years Ago?

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings, has a wonderful meme called Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. Mostly I get to it on Sunday morning. My mission is to: 1) Determine where my ancestral families were on 25 June 1866 - 150 years ago. 2) List my ancestors, their family members, their birth and death years, and their residence location (as close as possible). Do you have a photograph of their residence from about that time, and does the residence still exist? 3) Tell all about it in my own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status or Google+ Stream post. Well, I created a table with the list of ancestors. The ones shaded in blue are my paternal ancestors and the ones shaded in pink are my maternal ancestors. Interesting that the generations are so different between my maternal vs. paternal. My paternal grandmother was old enough to be the mother of my maternal grandmother. I have no information about houses these ancestors lived in during 1866. For some, I hav

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Three Stories for Father's Day

Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun is timely. We’re writing about our father’s for Father’s Day. Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is: 1) Sunday, 19 June, is Father's Day. Let's celebrate by writing a blog post about your father, or another significant male ancestor (e.g., a grandfather). 2) What are three things about your father (or significant male ancestor) that you vividly remember about him? 3) Tell us all about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook status or Google+ stream post. My father, William Joseph Hork was born 23 April 1930,  just days after the 1930 census was taken and thus was not on it. His parents were William Cyril Hork and Anna Marie Sullivan . He married Lela Nell Johnston (1934-1992) on 19 April 1953 and they had 6 children. I’m the oldest. He died 13 Oct 2007. SPORTS . He kept track of all the football teams My father loved sports. He pl