In some ways, I love it when Randy Seaver's theme for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun is something for which I already know the answers.
Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission: Impossible! music), is:
1. Did your grandparents know their grandparents personally?
2. Check your family tree and share your grandparents' names and birth and death years and places, and their grandparents' names and birth and death years and places, and indicate if they knew their grandparents.
3. Share in your own blog post or in a Facebook, SubStack, BlueSky, or other social media post. Leave a link to your post on this blog post to help us find your post.
As another poster on Randy's site commented, we did this exact same topic in February. I took her cue and did this with my parents instead of my grandparents. I realized after I wrote everything down that it would be difficult to look up the years I couldn't remember, because the computer on which I have been running my family tree crashed three days ago. I shipped the computer out yesterday and won't know the status of the hard drive until at least Tuesday. I searched for when I've posted about these ancestors, though, and retrieved the few years of which I was unsure that way.
• Father: Bertram Lynn Sellers, Jr. (1935 New Jersey–2019 Florida). His grandparents were:
• Cornelius Elmer Sellers (1874 Pennsylvania–1918 New Jersey; adoptive) — no
• Laura May Armstrong (1882 New Jersey–1970 Florida) — yes
• Thomas Kirkland Gauntt (1870 New Jersey–1951 New Jersey) — yes
• Jane Dunstan (1871 Lancashire–1955 New Jersey) — yes
• Mother: Myra Roslyn Meckler (1940 New York–1995 Florida). Her grandparents were:
• Morris Mackler (about 1882 Russian Empire–1953 New York) — yes
• Minnie Zelda Nowicki (about 1880 Russian Empire–1936 New York) — no
• Joe Gordon (about 1892 Russian Empire–1955 New York) — yes
• Sarah Libby Brainin (about 1890 Russian Empire–1963 Florida) — yes
Totals:
Yes: 6
No: 2
Three out of four seems to be a common number. That's how many each of my maternal grandparents knew and it's the same for me.
ReplyDeleteIt does, doesn't it? It's probably related to average ages when marrying, average ages at death, etc. I guess I was lucky to know all four of my grandparents plus two steps.
DeleteYour parents were lucky to have known three out of four grandparents. Sorry to hear about your computer. I hope you get good news.
ReplyDeleteAnd my mother even knew one great-grandparent! Lucky indeed. Thanks for the good wishes.
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