My Trails into the Past

The Book of Me, Written by You is a blogging theme where one can write about their own life using blog themes posted each week.  More information can be found at Anglers Rest  here . This week's prompt is - Hairstyles Go on share your hairstyles over the years! Do you have regular hairdresser habits? Colour? Do you dye it? (your secret is safe with us!) I’ve never been a big fan of hair and hairstyles. I can count the number of times I have been to a real beauty shop on one hand: (1) for my 8th grade graduation, (2) trying out a styled cut by a stylist, and (3) to get a permanent (which I would never do again!).  In-between I have been to hair cutting shops to have my hair cut. As a young child my mother curled my hair. I even remember a horrible time when my grandmother gave me a permanent. Sitting still all that time was so hard when you were young but you didn’t sass Mam-ma. I was pretty scared of her then! Top: 1st grade, 2nd grade, 4th grade Bot...

Our assignment this week from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is: Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 1) What was your father's mother's name? 2) What is your father's mother's patrilineal line? That is, her father's father's father's ... back to the most distant male ancestor in that line? 3) Can you identify male sibling(s) of your father's mother, and any living male descendants from those male sibling(s)? If so, you have a candidate to do a Y-DNA test on that patrilineal line. If not, you may have to find male siblings, and their descendants, of the next generation back, or even further. 4) Tell us about it in your own blog post, or in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook or Google Plus post. 1) My father’s mother’s name was Anna Marie Sullivan. 2) So her father was John H. Sullivan (1854-1932). His father was Jeremiah Sullivan (1811-1888). This is as far back as I have researc...

Our newest 3-2-1 Challenge from DearMyrtle is: ·          3 – Review 3 possible projects ·          2 – Submit two batches ·          1 – Write 1 paragraph about your impressions CITE! All sources, including your “personal knowledge” as the source for the paragraph you write. I won’t be able to write one paragraph about my impressions but I'm excited to get back into indexing! I had done indexing back in 2012 when the 1940 census came out. The census records were lots of fun and were not too hard to do except for reading some challenging handwriting on occasion. I had also done other projects but couldn’t remember which ones. On the tab for My History in the Indexing program, I could click on the “My Records Submitted” to see what I had done before. Some of the other record groups included Ontario, Canada Marriages; WWII Draft Registrations from Ark...