My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - Time for some more Genealogy Fun! Our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings today is to: 1)  Have you made an Ahnentafel report ("name table" in German) recently?  Show us yours!  How did you do it?  Which program did you use? Here's mine: Unlike Randy, I started with my father in the number one spot. I also use RootsMagic and used the publish menu to produce the ahnentafel report. An Ahnentafel is a genealogical method of numbering. How it works the ancestor’s father is always double their own number and the mother is plus one. So, my father is number one, his father twice that at number two, and his mother is plus one, making her number 3.  His father’s parents would then be 4 and 5 and his mother’s parents 6 and 7. The Ahnentafel report then lists these people in numerical order but separates them by generation. My dad is in generation one, his parents in generation two, and h...

It's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun! Your mission this weekend from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to: 1) What was your mother's father's full name? 2) What is your mother's father's matrilineal line? That is, his mother's mother's mother's ... back to the most distant female ancestor in that line.  Provide her ahnentafel number (relative to you), and her birth and death years and places. 3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, or in a Comment on this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please put a link to your post in Comments here. Here's mine: 1. My maternal grandfather (#6) was Tom J Johnston (1912-1973). 2. Tom’s mother was (#13) Nell Hutson (1888-1919), who married (#12) Thomas Newton Johnston (1885-1951). Nell was born in Texas, perhaps in Comanche County, and died of the young age of 31 in Comanche County, Texas. Nell’s mother was (#27) Sarah Helena “Sallie” Selman (1858-1916). Sal...