Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings ’ assignment tonight is to: 1) All genealogists are human and most of us have gone on wild ancestor (goose) chases in our genealogy research career. What was one of the wild ancestor chases in your research? Explain the situation and how you (hopefully!) solved the puzzle. Here's mine: I cannot think of a time when I went down the wrong trail and had to chop off a line I had researched. However, I have been searching a long time for a few end-of-the-line ancestors. Two examples include: Jeremiah & Mary Sullivan of County Cork Jeremiah Sullivan and Mary Sheehan of County Cork came to the United States sometime in 1860s, but I cannot locate them on a ship’s list. It is possible (and I have not thought to check until this moment) that Jeremiah came alone and then Mary came with the children, or Jeremiah came with a couple of s...
My Trails into the Past
Researching: Davey, Gleeson, Gorrell, Hork, Hutson, Johnston, Jones, Lundquist, Nilsen, Selman, Sievert, Sullivan, Tierney, & Wollenweber.