My Trails into the Past

Genealogists are great at documenting our ancestors’ lives but not so great documenting our own. I’ll write about what I’ve been doing the past week. This idea came from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing, who started this meme. Genealogy Blog Writing : I wrote the following blog post this week: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks  For week 12, I wrote about no. 12 in my husband’s ahnetafel chart: his great-grandfather, Nils Malkom Nilsen. For Saturday Night Genealogy Fun , we were asked to writing about the birth order of one of our lines. So I did one of my grandmother’s side. Webinars/Study Groups Attended:   I attended: “The Five-Story Fall: Correlating Indirect and Direct Evidence to Extend the Pedigree,” by Debbie Mieszala, CG, for BCG Legacy Family Tree Webinars. “One African American Family’s Story of Migration,” J. Mark Lowe, CG, for Legacy Family Tree Webinars. “Scarlet Letters: Copyright, Ethics and Family Correspon...