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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Make an Ancestor's Timeline

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has another great activity tonight. Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1) Have you created a Timeline for one of your ancestors using a genealogy software program (e.g., Family Tree Maker, RootsMagic, Legacy, Reunion, etc.) or an online family Tree (e.g., Ancestry Member Tree, FamilySearch Family Tree, Geni, MyHeritage, etc.), or in a spreadsheet (e.g., Excel)? 2)  If not, try to create a timeline using the program/website of your choice.  If so, create another one for the ancestor of your choice! 3)  Show us your Timeline creation, and tell us how you did it.  Which program/website, the process you used, and how you captured the images to display your timeline. 4)  Share your Timeline creation on your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or on Facebook or Google+. I’m working on writing up a story about Per Alfred Lundquist, the great-grandfather of my...