My Trails into the Past

It's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun! Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing is: Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to: 1)  We sometimes find we have questions we would love to discuss with our ancestors - the who, what, when, why and how questions that might help with our genealogy research. 2)  Which ancestors would you like to talk to?  What questions would you ask?  3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a post on Facebook. First I would like to speak to my 3x great-grandfather, Samuel Johnston. He was born 1816 somewhere in South Carolina and died sometime around 1869 in Titus County, Texas. First off, Titus County, Texas’s courthouse burned in the 1890s, so any records he created there are gone. I’m lucky to have some tax records that had been sent to the state. Prior to that, they lived in Yalob...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun !! Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has our assignment for this week. 1)  Ellen Thompson-Jennings posted 20 questions on her Hound on the Hunt blog three weeks ago - see Even More Questions About Your Ancestors and Maybe A Few About You (posted 27 June). 2)  We will do these five at a time - Questions 16 to 20 tonight (we did 1 through 5 three weeks ago, questions 6 through 10 two weeks ago, and questions 11 through 15 last week) 3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post. Here's mine: 16)  If you’re into DNA which would you say you work on more? Genealogy or DNA? Or about the same? I have not really worked on DNA much, so I’d say I do more genealogy than DNA. Maybe someday I’ll have a problem that DNA will be a valuable piece of evidence. 17)  Do you think that your genealogy is eve...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun !! Here is our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing .  1)  Ellen Thompson-Jennings posted 20 questions on her Hound on the Hunt blog two weeks ago - see Even More Questions About Your Ancestors and Maybe A Few About You (posted 27 June). 2)  We will do these five at a time - Questions 11 to 15 tonight (we did 1 through 5 two weeks ago and questions 6 tthrough 10 last week) 3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post. My responses for this week's questions: 11)  If money wasn’t an issue; where would you go to do genealogy research? Germany to research the Hork/Trösster line in Kirchhundem, Kreis Olpe, Westfalia. Travel from Texas to South Carolina, hitting every county where my mother’s southern families lived. I want to find the records that were not filmed by Famil...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun !!     Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has our assignment for this week: 1)  Ellen Thompson-Jennings posted 20 questions on her blog last week - see Even MoreQuestions About Your Ancestors and Maybe A Few About You (posted 27 June). 2)  We will do these five at a time - Questions 6 to 10 tonight (we did 1 through 5 last week) 3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post. Here are the next five questions and my answers: 6.  How many DNA companies have you tested with or transferred to? Have you tested at all the 5 major companies? I have personally tested with Ancestry, 23andMe, and LivingDNA. I had my maternal grandmother and my paternal aunt test at FamilyTreeDNA. I have transferred my DNA to My Heritage, FamilyTreeDNA, and GEDMatch. My husband has also tested at Ancestry, 23andMe...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's  Saturday Night  again - time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Randy Seaver of  Genea-Musing  has a new assignment for us: Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 1)  Ellen Thompson-Jennings posted 20 questions on her blog this week - see  Even More Questions About Your Ancestors and Maybe A Few About You  (posted 27 June). 2)  We will do these five at a time - Questions 1 to 5 tonight. 3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post. Here are my answers: 1.  Which ancestor had the most children? It can be a couple or a single person. I only checked my direct lines. The person with the most is highlighted in blue. My paternal side: Vincent Siewert & Susanna Raduntz had eleven children Johan Anton Hork & Julia Ann Siev...