My Trails into the Past

It's  Saturday Night  - time for more  Genealogy Fun! Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing is to: 1) Go into your Genealogy Management Program (GMP; either software on your computer, or an online family tree) and figure out how to Count how many surnames you have in your family tree database. 2)  Tell us which GMP you're using and how you did this task. 3)  Tell us how many surnames are in your database and, if possible, which Surname has the most entries.  If this excites you, tell us which surnames are in the top 5!  Or 10!!  Or 20!!! 4)  Write about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, in a status or comment on Facebook, or in Google Plus Stream post. Here's mine. I use RootsMagic 8 and followed Randy’s instructions on how he did it, since I had not yet explored the reports part of the newest version of RootsMagic. I have 42 pages of surnames when I create the alphabetical lis...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing this week is: 1) Go into your Genealogy Management Program (GMP; either software on your computer, or an online family tree) and figure out how to Count how many surnames you have in your family tree database. 2)  Tell us which GMP you're using and how you did this task. 3)  Tell us what the top 20  surnames are in your database and, if possible, how many entries.  How many different surnames are in your family tree? 4)  Write about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, in a status or comment on a Facebook post. I use RootsMagic and Randy was so kind to explain in his blog post how to do this in RootsMagic. It is a report called "Surname Statistics." We had done this previously on 21 October 2017. So I will do some comparisons to update the post.* The pre...

It is said we should know the surnames of our eight great-grandparents. As a genealogist, it is very likely that we do know the names of our great-grandparents, and the names of our spouse’s eight great-grandparents. For this post, I got the idea from this post “The Theory of Eight Surnames” written by Scottish blogger named Jim. My eight surnames are: Hork Sievert Sullivan Gleeson Johnston Hutson Lancaster Loveless I also research my husband’s family. His eight surnames are: Gorrell Shotts Davey Wollenweber Nilsen Anderson-Carlson Lundquist Eriksson There is difficulty in dealing with his mother’s line, as they are all from Sweden and their surnames changed each generation. The list above are the names used in America. I also have the sixteen surnames of the great-great grandparents for both myself and my husband. After that, it can be hit and miss, as to whether I know the surnames. My Irish lines are pretty dead after tha...

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has another assignment this week for us. I have not had a chance to participate because I was away from my computer on vacation. Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 1) Go into your Genealogy Management Program (GMP; either software on your computer, or an online family tree) and figure out how to Count how many surnames you have in your family tree database. 2) Tell us which GMP you're using and how you did this task. 3) Tell us what the top 10 (or 20) surnames are in your database and, if possible, how many entries. How many different surnames are in your family tree? 4) Write about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, in a status or comment on Facebook, or in Google Plus Stream post. I use RootsMagic and Randy was so kind to explain in his blog post how to do this in RootsMagic. It is a report called "Surname Statistics." I was very surprise...

Here's my version of a surname Christmas tree. These are all the surnames I am researching on my side and my husband's side of the family.  The idea came from Randy Seaver and Leslie Ann . Thanks!  It was fun. Copyright © 2013 by Lisa Suzanne Gorrell, My Trails into the Past