Hey genea-folks,
it's Saturday Night again,
time for more Genealogy Fun!
Our mission this week from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to:
1) What is the most wild, crazy, off-the-wall, or really stupid thing you have done in pursuit of your ancestral families and their family history?
Here’s mine:
I don’t know if I have ever done a wild, crazy, off-the-wall or really stupid thing in pursuit of my genealogy. I try to be very careful in my research. I recorded what I found in notebooks and didn’t just make photocopies. I knew enough to record some kind of citation even if it wasn’t to Evidence Explained standards (of course that book wasn’t even written yet. I used Evidence! Elizabeth Shown Mills first book.)
But a wild thing my husband and I did in pursuit of my having my own copies of tombstone photos was to seek out eight different cemeteries around the Greenbrier area in Faulkner County, Arkansas, and comb through them looking for my Loveless ancestors and collateral lines.
Location of cemeteries around Greenbrier
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| What we used to get to each cemetery - a Google Map |
I am very thankful that he had to patience to locate the cemeteries and then walk through them row by row looking for the names on our list. I had gathered from Find a Grave those names from my database that were buried in Faulkner County.
I wished I had taken a photo of my husband searching.
Scoping out 8 cemeteries near each other must have been an adventure and your husband was a saint to put up with that! My SNGF also mentions a cemetery hunt with my hubby, who was ready to leave before we found the gravestones. I know for sure he'd never consent to tackling 8!
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