My Trails into the Past

Another great fun day with Randy Seaver from Genea-Musing . Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):  1) My friend and colleague J. Paul Hawthorne started this on Facebook, and many geneabloggers have already done it. 2) The challenge is to create a five or six generation ancestor chart that shows your ancestor's birthplaces. You can download Paul's sample chart (an Excel spreadsheet) available at :  http://bit.ly/1RjfZEZ . Pat Richley-Erickson created another spreadsheet (5 or 6 generations), available at: http://bit.ly/5n6GenBirth . 3) Share your Ancestral birthplace Chart with the genealogy world on your own blog post or on Facebook or on Google+. Facebook was all the rage for two days as nearly every genealogist posted a colorful pedigree chart showing the birth locations of  5 generations of ancestors. It was all due to the invention of J. Paul Hawthorne, a fellow Californian who lives way south o...

Another fun meme from Randy Seaver at Genea-Musing: 1) A "Bucket List" meme went around Facebook several weeks ago where you put an "X" in the box if you have done it! 2) Copy and paste it into your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or on Facebook or Google+ and fill it out (erase my entries and insert your own). Here's the list and my responses: (X) Shot a gun ( ) Gone on a blind date (X ) Skipped school (X ) Watched someone die (X ) Visited Canada (X ) Visited Hawaii ( ) Visited Cuba (X ) Visited Europe (X ) Visited Las Vegas ( ) Visited Central America ( ) Visited Asia ( ) Visited Africa () Visited Florida (X ) Visited Mexico (X ) Seen the Grand Canyon in person ( ) Flown in a helicopter (X ) Served on a jury (X ) Been lost (X ) Traveled to the opposite side of the country (X ) Visited Washington, DC (X ) Swam in the Ocean ( X) Cried yourself to sleep (X ) Played cops and robbers (X ) Played cowboys and Indians ( ) Recently colored with crayo...