365 Days a Year, 

365 Family History-Genealogy Rules 

19.
Do you know who to pass on the genealogy to in your family.  Will it be one of your children grandchild, niece, nephew, or a great one of these.

Who Does What Best?

Genealogist/Family Historian ASK THE Questions the rest of the Family is shy to to ask about.   

Now the Question been asked and They all want in on it if its good.  Other wise just keep the lid on it don't talk about it.  Who Knew??? 

Genealogy Quotes #4

"Why waste your money looking 

up your family tree?

Just go into politics, and your opponents 

will do it for you."

-Mark Twain-

Play Toys of our Ancestors

Imagine if our childrens toys would still be so simple as the stick & stone.  

However as each generation has come along toys have either become more sophisticated or simplified.

How quickly the sticks and stones were fashioned into adult style play items for children.

Did you get to inheriate any of your ancestors toy?  

I wonder have old of a toy some one had inherited through the years?

Toys could make play alot funner for some.

Then that Christmas when my 1 year old niece Amanda was so happy playing in a box.

all photos from Googkle search

Lake Erie from Ohio point of View

Lake Erie

Lake Erie is one of the Great Lakes and currently serves as part of Ohio's northern boundary. During the 1700s and 1800s, Lake Erie provided a quick means of transportation for men engaged in the fur trade as well as settlers hoping to improve their fortunes in the Ohio Country. Its importance grew during the 1810s and the 1820s as Americans began to build canals. The completion of the Erie Canal, connecting the Hudson River in New York with Lake Erie, provided the first navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the upper Midwest. This allowed farmers in Ohio a relatively quick and inexpensive route to transport their products to market. Cleveland quickly grew and became one of the leading industrial centers of Ohio thanks to its location on Lake Erie. 

Name Origins Christmas

Name Origins

by Julie Helen Otto, Staff Genealogist NEHGS

Christmas (m and f): Over time, the U.S. census has enumerated a number of people with the first name Christmas, both male and female. Most likely, the majority were born on or near Christmas Day. In 1790, there was one person listed in the census named Christmas: 

Christmas Hunt of Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. 
In 1850, there were 37 people named Christmas; in 1880, 125 people; in 1910, 308 people; and, in 1940, there were 95 people named Christmas.

A search of the databases on AmericanAncestors.org also shows a number of examples, including

Christmas Dumore, son of Godfrey and Philomon (___) Dumore, who was born in Grafton, Massachusetts, on December 25, 1869, and

 Christmas L. Morse, daughter of Frank and Josephine (Gaudard) Morse, born in Adams, Massachusetts, on December 25, 1887.

Bay City Tessier Brothers

                      A set of Fine Looking

          2nd Great Grandfather & Great Uncles

So which one are you descended from?

Mine is Prosper Tessier b. 1855, he married Katherine **King *VanDerhurk.

They had many children:

Christopher Tessier b. 1858

Henry Tessier b. 1863

Traditional Thanksgiving

Family Time

Who do you have over on Thanksgiving?  Where are you invited to?  Where do you go if you have more then one invatation?

Many questions this seasons gives us.  How to you choose?  Is it easy to choose?

How about the extra people you would like to include.  When do you ask to have them added to the guest list.  Are you frazzled if someone comes you were not expecting if your the one hosting the dinner?

Good Luck

A - Z Y

      

A – z   y

y  is for the y-dnA

y is FoR THe way we giVe ouR dnA

y is for each ancestors Uniqueness

A - Z R

A – Z  R

R is for Research

Researching

Researched

Research again

Tell your Families Story

Have you heard family lore from your Parents, Grandparents, Uncles, Aunts or Cousins ?  

I did.  Sometimes it was my desire to know more about what I had heard which led me to research. I really wanted to find out if the information was correct or not.  

Everyone has a family history story to tell whats yours?  Also in your search have you found names of others involved that you did not hear about?  What uniqueness does your family have?  Can you find proof?  Were you able to share your findings with the one who told the story?  Are you happy with what you found?  

Get ready share the proved story.  Write it up. Sent a letter to others who know about it via what ever way you choose.  You can blog about it.  Tweet it. Send it to the local newspaper of where it occurred [one easy way to have your family history reach all those possible cousins etc.] they should be happy to add it in their paper.

To me its not a story if its not shared. Hey it might even help break a brick wall down. Share your Story!