Family History Nuggets

     Yesterday I wrote about my current projects. I did however leave off the work I'm doing on my Irish ancestors. I have names and dat...

My great-grandfather Frank J. Kain (pamapa) was a member of the Knights of Columbus in Creighton, NE. I know this thanks to the book "K...

 I need to get caught up with the 52 Ancestors prompts. I plan to do several this week until I can get caught up. We'll see how this goe...

For 2023, as a way to get back into blogging, I'm going to try to take part in Amy Johnson Crow 's " 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks ...

Here's Randy's challenge for tonight: Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, plea...

Day 5, Wednesday, Oct. 23 Before leaving O'Neill, we stopped off at the quilt store so I could drop off the family history of our p...

Day 4, Tuesday, Oct. 22 On Tuesday, we drove from Grand Island to Osceola, NE to visit my mom’s sister and her husband, Roselyn and Ala...

Randy Seaver's challenge for this week : 1) Who is your TMRUA - your Third Most Recent Unknown Ancestor? This is the person with the t...

In my family, ice cream is king. My dad had to have a dish of ice cream before bed each night. He inherited this from his mother. A weakness...

Week 13. Local Societies: Local genealogical and historical societies are the lifeblood of genealogy. Members and volunteers give their tim...

These are my grandmother's younger siblings. This picture was probably taken at the same time as last week's . In this one, left t...

In the back is Richard Kain. The others, left to right, are Nora, Francis and Mary Julia Kain. Mary Julia is my grandmother; the others a...

Randy Seaver's SNGF challenge this week is: 1) Make up a limerick about genealogy - it should be A-A-B-B-A in rhyme (don't worry ...

For St. Patrick's Day, I thought I'd recap my Irish lines of Kain , Kennedy , Fox and Collins . 1. Kevin Joseph HUIGENS 2. Jose...

This is the grave marker for my great-grandparents, my father's maternal grandparents. They died when he was still an infant. They are...

March 2 — Post a photo of one of your female ancestors. Who is in the photo? When was it taken? Why did you select this photo? This is ...

Here is the status of my research on my paternal grandmother. Currently all of this information is in a Google doc document file. I'm pl...

Week 7 – Historical Documents: Which historical document in your possession are you happy to have? How did you acquire this item? What does...

1) Using your ancestral lines, how far back in time can you go with two degrees of separation? That means "you knew an ancestor, who ...

For which free offline genealogy tool are you most grateful? How did you find this tool and how has it benefited your genealogy? Describe to...