52 ancestors – Family heirloom

Bad news - I have to pass on this one. Well, not really pass, I just have to postpone it. I am sitting on packed boxes as I am moving houses mid March. Why is my stuff packed then already? Because it was planned to move next weekend, but the new apartment will be renovated …

52 ancestors – what’s with this Valentine?

This week's prompt for the 52 ancestors challenge is "Valentine". How fitting for the week of February 14. Let's see what we have here. I don't have any Valentine or Valentina in my family tree. Really! I double checked. So I went for the date. February 14 - what happened on my family tree? And …

52 ancestors – the favourite name

This week's prompt is really interesting as in last week's genchatDE (the German version of the genchat) we had a discussion on names. How it is not helpful when ancestors carry the same names in different variations. Like Sophia Maria or Maria Sophia or just Sophia or Maria. So many of my ancestors and family …

In the census – 52 ancestors in 52 weeks

I have some catching up to do - I am one week behind. Week number 5 was all about "In the census". And I thought a lot what to write about. I do have an interesting story of name changes of my Koppetsch family throughout the US censuses, but I would rather like to share …

My ancestor score February 2018

It is time for a new ancestor score. Since I started it, I am hooked 🙂 You see there is not really a lot of  "improvement" from last year. Although I was able to add 2 direct ancestors in my 6th and in my 7th generation, I had to remove two direct ancestors in my …