Showing posts with label SNGF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SNGF. Show all posts

Saturday, May 4, 2013

SNGF: My Mother's Mother's Patrilineal Line

It's been a while, but I thought I'd try to participate in this week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge, as posed by Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings. Except - my mother and her mother are both living, and neither, I think, would want to be identified by name online. I'll do what I can, operating under the no living persons restriction.

1. What was your mother's mother's name? [This falls under the no living persons restriction.]

2. What is your mother's mother's patrilineal line?
-Carmine Lanzillotto (1894-1969)
-Giuseppe Lanzillotto (1851-1931)
-Nicola Lanzillotto (????-????)

3. Can you identify male siblings of your mother's mother, and any living male descendants of those siblings? My grandmother had 3 brothers, 2 of whom are still living. I sometimes still get confused by which of my mother's many, many cousins go with which aunts and uncles, but I can confidently say that among them they had at least 3 sons and one grandson, and quite possibly more. 

More than anything else, what this exercise has revealed is that I need to sit down with my mother and have her help me sketch out her side of the family tree - not our ancestors, who I have a handle on, but her cousins, who are so numerous as to defy all but the sharpest memories.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

SNGF: You Might be a Genealogist if . . .

I'm honored that Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun for this week was inspired by my post from earlier this week, "You Might be a Genealogist if . . ."

The ones I've posted in the past are:

You might be a genealogist if . . .
 . . . you know exactly what you want to get with your tax refund, and it's your great-great-great-grandmother's death certificate.
. . . your mother and sister ask questions like "What are all the surnames in our family and Ben's?" when gathering information for games for your bridal shower.
. . . you've ever gotten a message from your significant other that says "Happy anniversary - I renewed our ancestry.com subscription for another year!"
. . . you've thought of the birth of a new cousin as "making the next generation's genealogy."
. . . you got a little jealous when your boyfriend wanted to hang out with a former flame, but you got INCREDIBLY jealous when he received a copy of his great-grandfather's diary in the mail.

I'm excited to see what everyone else comes up with!