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| Photo by Tomorrow Never Knows |
Thank you, thank you, thank you to Randy Seaver at genea-musings for the Saturday night challenge of listing our 16 great great grandparents. I've been in a "blog fog" (where I can't think of anything to write about) for the last few weeks and now I have something to blog about. I will admit it is Sunday night and I'm 24 hours late but I've been out of town this weekend so I get a free pass :-)
The challenge was:
1) List your 16 great-great-grandparents with their birth, death and marriage data (dates and places). [Hint - you might use an Ancestral Name List from your software for this.]
2) Determine the countries (or states) that these ancestors lived in at their birth and at their death.
3) For extra credit, go make a "Heritage Pie" chart for the country of origin (birth place) for these 16 ancestors. [Hint: you could use the chart generator from Kid Zone for this.] [Note: Thank you to Sheri Fenley for the "Heritage Pie" chart idea.]
I'm not going for extra credit as I'm too tired and too technically challenged but here goes:
1. William Warren McAboy: Born 12 December, 1842 in DeWitt County, Illinois. Died 12 January, 1925 in Santa Cruz, California. Married 10 January 1864 in DeWitt County, Illinois to....
2. Rebecca Moriah Waller: Born 7 February, 1845 in Warren County, Ohio. Died 23 October 1928 in Fresno, California.
3. Matthew Fitzgerald: Born 10 September 1850 in Ireland. Died 24 August 1905 in Fresno, California. Married June 1869 in Derryleagh, Cork, Ireland to....
4. Julia Horgan: Born 1849 in Derryleagh, Cork, Ireland. Died 4 August 1886 in Black, Yolo County, California.
5. Lewis Saxon Martin: Born 9 April 1820 in South Carolina. Died 19 July 1903 in Laurens County, South Carolina. Married 12 April 1848 in Laurens County, South Carolina (second marriage) to....
6. Millicent Moore: Born 6 October 1827 in South Carolina. Died 3 January 1884 in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.
7. William J. Brooks: Born 1835 in South Carolina. Died 1862 in Fredericksburg, Virgina. (I need to research this - I just realized he must have died at the battle of Fredericksburg). Married to.....
8. Sarah Jane Miller: Born November 1836 in South Carolina. Died 30 April 1923 in Fresno, California.
9. Louis Schwartz: Born 28 December 1834 in Shildberg, Prussia. Died 23 May 1893 in Byron Springs, Contra Costa County, California. Married 15 October 1865 in California to....
10. Rebecca Steen: Born 8 February 1848 in Poland. Died 7 January 1918 in Oakland, California.
11. Ferdinand Gunzendorfer: Born 1 August 1838 in Adelsdorf, Bavaria. Died 20 October 1907 in Montery, California. Married in 1863 in California to....
12. Fannie Goldstein: Born 6 March 1848 in Poland. Died 22 July 1910 in San Francisco, California.
13. Benjamin Benas: Born 26? December, 1826 in Posen, Germany. Died 17 April 1892 in Vallejo, California. Married before 1870 in California to....
14. Fredericka Wilzinski: Born 20 April 1840 in Prussia or Germany. Died 14 October 1915 in San Francisco, California.
And that's all I've got. I do not know the parents of my paternal great grandfather, Herman Levy. I've hit a bit of a brick wall so I've put them aside. For now.
Debi,
ReplyDeleteI love that picture that you found. So interesting that it would be of trees. At first I thought I was going to see a name of each of your 16 gg-grandparents on the grid. Very nice.
This is an amazing trove of information. I couldn't do this with the information i have thus far. Thanks for being a regular visitor to Family Archaeologist!
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