My Weird Family . . . Names That Is

This week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge has been put forth by Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings . Here are the details: 1) What is the most unique, strangest or funniest combination of given name and last name in your ancestry? Not in your database - in your ancestry. 2) Tell us about this person in a blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a comment on Facebook. 3) Okay, if you don't have a really good one - how about a sibling of your direct ancestors? Actually this is

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Your Most Unique Ancestral Name

Hey, genealogy fans - it's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun! In honor of Surname Saturday (the new, official genealogy blogging prompt for Saturdays), let's consider this, assuming you accept the challenge to play along (is it Mission Impossible?): 1) What is the most unique, strangest or funniest combination of given name and last name in your ancestry? Not in your database - in your ancestry. 2) Tell us about this person in a blog post, in a comment to this blog

Tracing Michelle Obama’s roots

A New York Times article reported last week that Michelle Obama's great-great-great grandmother was a slave. Tony Burroughs CNN Last week a New York Times article reported that Michelle Obama’s great-great-great grandparents were a white man and a slave whom he impregnated. This story highlights the growing importance of genealogy in America. Some of the comments posted online were from people skeptical that the full story of Michelle Obama’s ancestry will ever be known. One s

California Genealogy and History Archives

If you are a California researcher, or have California ancestry, have you checked out the California Genealogy and and History Archives site at http://calarchives4u.com/ ? There are web pages for the following Collections: Argonauts (Pioneers) Bible Biographies -- (partial) Births Books CA Connections -- See who may be researching your family line. Cemetery Records and Tombstone Photos Census Church Civil War Records : Records of California Men in the War of the Rebellion,

One Family’s Roots, a Nation’s History

Ted S. Warren/Associated PressMichelle Obama with her mother, Marian Robinson. In an article published on Wednesday, The Times reported on Michelle Obama’s ancestry, tracing her maternal line back to her great-great-great-grandparents, a slave girl and a white man, and their son, Dolphus T. Shields, who was born in the 1850s. While these findings tell of Michelle Obama’s roots, for many Americans her family’s story will also bring into focus a common narrative, which runs through the history of

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