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Zallpinkeyepower of attorneypress releaseprostitutespublic domainpublic historyrailroadrecordsresearcher forumrural lifesegregationself publishingsewingsignaturesspreadsheetsstate censusesstepsiblingstock certificatessummertax liststeachingtelephonestraditionsvoiceswar memorialswhalingwidowyoung genealogistsGenealogy is like a jigsaw puzzle, but you don't have the box top, so you don't know what the picture is supposed to look like. As you start putting the puzzle together, you realize some pieces are missing, and eventually you figure out that some of the pieces you started with don't actually belong to this puzzle. I'll help you discover the right pieces for your puzzle and assemble them into a picture of your family.http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/noreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)Blogger2315125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-1363817067834665160Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:02:00 +00002026-04-08T17:02:49.374-07:002000'scarsfatherFloridaSouth CarolinaWordless Wednesday http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/04/wordless-wednesday_8.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-2705922652668304231Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:00:00 +00002026-04-04T20:00:24.098-07:00FloridaparentsSaturday Night Genealogy Fun I'm still trying to catch up from missing last week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, but I'm happy to participate in this week's challenge from Randy Seaver! Here is your assignment, if you choose to play along (cue the Mission:  Impossible music, please!): 1.  Family stories are often about "turning points" and "major decisions." 2.  This week, please describe a "turning pointhttp://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/04/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-what-was.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-8806538028259344994Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:40:00 +00002026-04-01T23:40:01.870-07:001970'sFloridagrandfatherWordless Wednesdayhttp://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/04/wordless-wednesday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-3844512688523609430Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:07:00 +00002026-03-25T16:07:38.818-07:001960'sCaliforniaWordless Wednesdayhttp://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/03/wordless-wednesday_25.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-4095222069086843379Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:16:00 +00002026-03-23T01:16:03.490-07:00bloggingGeneabloggersJewishSaturday Night Genealogy Fun I found this meme accidentally because Banai Lynn Feldstein, the Ginger Genealogist, had her blog hacked and some of her older posts, including the 99 Things Genealogy Meme, were sent out as new items.  I discovered that Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, which I use as weekly inspiration for posts, covered this topic, but in 2009, two years before I started blogging.  So I'm going to do http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/03/99-things-genealogy-meme.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-7200283394340242352Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:46:00 +00002026-03-22T14:46:37.387-07:00memoriesNational Memory DaySaturday Night Genealogy Fun I sent this suggestion for a Saturday Night Genealogy Fun topic to Randy Seaver a while ago to use this year.  I thought it was perfect timing that National Memory Day should fall on a Saturday. Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 1.  March 21 is National Memory Day.  How can we celebrate, and participate, in the day?  I asked http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/03/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-celebrate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-1026684565895516339Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:14:00 +00002026-03-18T16:14:33.094-07:002000'sfatherFloridaWordless Wednesdayhttp://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/03/wordless-wednesday_18.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-3696185267676428878Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:53:00 +00002026-03-11T23:53:42.596-07:00cemeteriesfuneral homesgreat-grandfatherNew JerseySellerstombstones It was in 2005 that I visited my sister in New Jersey and put 700 miles on her car in five days.  I did that by driving in every borough of New York City and the two additional counties on Long Island while I met about 25 cousins on my mother's side of the family.  I also drove around Mount Holly, New Jersey researching my father's family.  In addition to finding the house where http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/03/perinchief-chapels-of-mount-holly-new.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-5122936834604510941Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:37:00 +00002026-03-11T22:46:28.181-07:001960'sCaliforniaChanukahChristmasextended familyWordless Wednesdayhttp://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/03/wordless-wednesday_11.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-4288062323583770823Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:49:00 +00002026-03-04T23:49:04.947-08:001960'sMecklermotherWordless Wednesdayhttp://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/03/wordless-wednesday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-6128082485933933649Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:08:00 +00002026-02-28T23:25:06.524-08:00artificial intelligencefatherFloridaNational GuardSaturday Night Genealogy FunSellers Randy Seaver is leading us down the AI path again for this week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun.  I decided to play along. Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 1.  Do you know what activities one of your ancestors/relatives engaged in?  How much detail do you know about those activities? 2.  Use the FREE artificial intelligence http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/02/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-describe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-8716452073741742442Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:53:00 +00002026-02-25T16:53:45.874-08:001972AustraliafathermotorcycleWordless Wednesday http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/02/wordless-wednesday_25.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-7591430270355042518Sun, 22 Feb 2026 06:37:00 +00002026-02-21T22:37:22.205-08:00cousinsgrandfatherGrodnoIndiaJewishMecklerMeklerNovitskyNowickiSaturday Night Genealogy FunSellersSinghSzochermanYelsky Randy Seaver is back with this week's challenge (a key word this week) for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun! Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 1.  What are your major genealogy challenges — the family mysteries that you haven't been able to crack to date? 2.  Tell us about five of your real genealogy challenges with a short paragraph, andhttp://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/02/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-what-are_21.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-4927504695507382801Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:56:00 +00002026-02-19T03:20:58.884-08:001950'scarsfatherFloridaSellersWordless Wednesdayhttp://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/02/wordless-wednesday_18.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-2760972019413269424Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:40:00 +00002026-02-15T15:40:51.649-08:00computerspersonal historyUSCFebruary 15 marks World Computer Day, which the computer industry uses to celebrate computers and make sure everyone knows how wonderful they are.  The event apparently always has a theme; this year's theme is the 80th anniversary of ENIAC, the "first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer."  Well, I don't have anything to do with ENIAC, so I'm going to celebrate by http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/02/my-first-computers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-2033983909468285999Sun, 15 Feb 2026 07:59:00 +00002026-02-15T00:04:24.036-08:001939BogusBronxGordongrandparentsJan PeerceMecklerRubinSaturday Night Genealogy FunValentine's Dayweddings It's Valentine's Day today, and Randy Seaver has created a challenge related to that for this week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 1.  It's Valentine's Day — a day for lovers!  We all have hundreds of love stories in our ancestry. 2.  What was the great love story of the ancestors in your family http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/02/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-what-was.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-9068347804488059887Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:59:00 +00002026-02-11T15:59:32.410-08:001970'sFloridagrandfatherSellersWordless Wednesday http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/02/wordless-wednesday_11.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-5628299217696779895Sun, 08 Feb 2026 07:14:00 +00002026-02-07T23:14:24.295-08:00IndiaIrelandMcElaneyMcKenneyMcSweeneyO'LearySaturday Night Genealogy FunSingh It's time for everyone's favorite weekend genealogical activity, Saturday Night Genealogy Fun with Randy Seaver! Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 1.  Have you researched the ancestors of your spouse (or significant other)?  Please list the names and vital records data for your spouse/SO's grandparents and great-grandparents as in an http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/02/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-who-are.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-5400630492596389472Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:49:00 +00002026-02-04T15:49:45.066-08:001970'scousinsLoreSellersWordless Wednesdayhttp://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/02/wordless-wednesday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-237353618576783375Mon, 02 Feb 2026 01:51:00 +00002026-02-01T17:51:34.569-08:00family storiesmotherpersonal historySaturday Night Genealogy Funyahrzeit I'm a little late, but not too behind to jump in for Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge for the week. Come on, everybody, join in and accept the mission and execute it with precision. 1.  What genealogy fun have you had this past month?  What is your genealogy research highlight of the past month?  It could be attending or watching a Webinar or local http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/02/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-what-are.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-1115157103843971692Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:25:00 +00002026-01-28T23:25:36.198-08:0019703rd-great-grandmotherArmstronggrandauntNanny IrelandNew JerseySellersWordless Wednesday http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/01/wordless-wednesday_28.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-1572754435278176333Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:15:00 +00002026-01-19T22:18:02.302-08:00family storiesMecklermotherpersonal historyyahrzeit Today is January 19, 2026, which corresponds to 1 Shevat on the Jewish calendar in the year 5786 (thank you, Steve Morse, for the handy-dandy Jewish calendar conversion tool).  My mother died on 1 Shevat; it is Jewish tradition to commemorate a person on the date of that person's death on the Jewish calendar, called the yahrzeit.  Part of how I remember my mother is by writing about http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/01/errors-of-omission.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-1210391206414938437Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:15:00 +00002026-01-15T23:15:23.463-08:00blogiversaryfamily storiesphotographsSaturday Night Genealogy FunWordless Wednesday I haven't been keeping up well with my blog during the past few weeks, but I knew I had to write a post today.  It is my 15th blogiversary, after all. Lisa Hork Gorrell and I started our blogs the same day, lo those 15 years ago.  She started a couple additional ones with specific focuses, but I've kept only this general one, lumping all of my posts together. Who knew we would last http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/01/can-it-really-be-15-years.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-6729884145151386983Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:35:00 +00002026-01-14T23:35:22.432-08:001970'sCaliforniaSellersWordless Wednesday http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2026/01/wordless-wednesday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1350318808703965214.post-3602591159004558801Thu, 01 Jan 2026 07:56:00 +00002025-12-31T23:56:46.079-08:001968CaliforniafathermotherNew Year's EvephotographsSellersAmong the photos in the scanned photo bonanza I received from my sister, I found some photos that pretty clearly are from at least one New Year's Eve party.  Obviously, New Year's Eve is a great time to post them! These four all seem to be from the same party.  I'm pretty sure this was our house in La Puente. This photo is why I think it was New Year's Eve 1968. This is my mother in http://www.ancestraldiscoveries.com/2025/12/new-years-eve-1968.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Janice M. Sellers)0