My Trails into the Past

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 to: 1)  Have you worked on the matrilineal line of your significant other?   Who are the mothers of the mothers of your significant other? Here's mine: My husband’s mother is Thelma Marie Nilsen , born 29 January 1926 in Hilmar, Merced County, California. She died 24 March 2018 in Caldwell, Canyon County, Idaho. Her matrilineal line is: Agnes Hilma Carolina Lundquist , born 16 July 1894 in Stanton, Montgomery County, Iowa. Agnes married Nils Arthur Nathaniel Nilsen on 29 November 1917 in Hilmar, Merced County, California. She died at age 42 on 31 July 1936 in Modesto, Stanislaus County, California. She and Arthur had ten children. Mathilda Lovisa Eriksson , born 21 December 1871 in Tidersrum, Östergötland län, Sweden. She emigrated to the United States in 1888. She married Pehr Alfred Lundquist on 15 M...

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...