My Trails into the Past

Here is our assignment: 1) Using your ancestral lines, how far back in time can you go with two degrees of separation? That means "you knew an ancestor, who knew another ancestor." When was that second ancestor born? 2) Tell us about it in a blog post of your own, in a comment to this blog post, in a status line on Facebook or a stream post on Google+. I tried this with both my father's line and my mother's: 1. My Hork-Sullivan-Gleeson line : My paternal great grandaunt,  Loretto M. Sullivan Patterson (1885-1972) held me (born in 1954 in Concord, California). She definitely knew her grandmother, Margaret Tierney Gleeson (1835 in Canada, d. 1920 in Portland, Oregon) because she lived with her grandparents after her mother died in 1912. Me with Aunt Loretta - 1954 Loretta with her Aunt and Grandmother - 1913 or so 2. My Hork-Johnston-Lancaster-Polly line : My grandmother, Pansy Louise Lancaster Johnston (1913-2013) knew her great-grandfather, Geor...

It's another great assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing . Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1) What are your genealogy education plans for 2016?  Local society meetings or seminars?  Regional or national conferences?  Weeklong institutes?  Genealogy cruises?  Podcasts?  YouTube Videos?  Webinars or Hangouts On Air?  Magazines?  Websites?  Blogs? 2)  How much time do you invest in Genealogy Education?  Why do you do it? 3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a Facebook or Google+ post. Here are my answers: 1. My 2016 genealogy education plan is: a. Attend Institutes. Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) .  This is already completed. I attended the course “Advanced Genealogical Methods” with Thomas W. Jones. It was a very rigorous class but very rewarding. I knew there would be homework, so ...