SNGF -- Your 2025 "Dear Genea-Santa" Letter

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

It's Saturday Night again - 

Time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Our assignment tonight from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is here.

1) Write your 2025 Genea-Santa letter. Have you been a good genealogy girl or boy? What genealogy-oriented items are on your Christmas wish list? They could be family history items, technology items, or things that you want to pursue in your ancestral quest.

Here's mine:
I hope that Genea-Santa thinks I have been a good genealogy girl. I have written family stories on my blog for all 52 weeks of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. I volunteered most months at the Oakland FamilySearch Center and weekly at the Contra Costa County Historical Society’s archives. There, I processed several collections and cataloged the library. I gave numerous genealogy talks and facilitated a monthly writing group.

The best gift received this year was from my research trip to Kentucky and Indiana, where I visited archives in Indianapolis and Frankfort, and libraries in Jeffersonville, Louisville, and Shelbyville.

My second-best gift was the addition of more digital images included in full-text search. I am finding many more records.

My wish for Christmas this year is to discover why the Selman children were included in a probate of the Hoyt and Brack families in Van Zandt Co, Texas, and Montgomery Co, Mississippi. I cannot find the connection.

I would also like to find the parents of Sam Johnston and his wife, Elizabeth McCormack. They were born somewhere in South Carolina.

That’s all I need, Genea-Santa. We have no chimney, so check the door and if you knock the signal, my husband who will likely still be up, can let you in. He’ll leave a treat – sorry, no sweets in our house, but we have the most delicious oranges and apples. 

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