It’s time for the Week 50 recap and, despite the busy-ness of the season, I’m feeling energized about the Challenge. Maybe it’s because I have the rest of the year’s posts mapped out. Maybe it’s the unexpected story I found while compiling my most recent post. Maybe it’s because I’m about ready to announce plans for 2015…
Last week, I tackled one of the posts that I’ve wanted to do since starting this challenge. I wrote about my search for the origins of my great-great-grandmother Susan Tucker Kelley, who I affectionately refer to as “my little orphaned milkmaid.”
My other post this past week told the rather unlikely story of my 6th-great-grandfather, Joseph Dickinson, and how dried beef saved him from a shipwreck. (Yes, you read that right.)
Who did you write about last week? Leave a link in the comments below. And be sure to go and look at the posts from Week 49. There are some good ones there — just like always!
REYNOLDS, Ephraim Weston – Civil War Veteran & Deserter
http://kessgen.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/52-ancestors-50-ephraim-weston-reynolds-civil-war-veteran-deserter/
CARRUTHERS, Herbert Lorne – farming pioneer on the Candian prairies http://ssimms64.blogspot.ca/2014/12/week-50-herbert-lorne-carruthers.html
SHEEHAN — Daniel SHEEHAN
http://jollettetc.blogspot.com/2014/12/52-ancestors-50-daniel-sheehan.html
CLONCH & CLAUNCH – 52 Ancestors: #50 Dennis CLONCH a.k.a. Dennis CLAUNCH
by Cathy Meder-Dempsey at Opening Doors in Brick Walls
http://openingdoorsinbrickwalls.wordpress.com/2014/12/15/52-ancestors-50-dennis-clonch-a-k-a-dennis-claunch/
Amy, we are so ready to hear your announcement about 2015!
Absent without Leave
MCDERMOTT, John (1876-unknown)
http://tangledrootsandtrees.blogspot.com/2014/12/52-ancestors-50-absent-without-leave.html
GOWDY — “John Kennedy Gowdy and the Search for John Paul Jones” on Green Family Archives
http://greenfamilyarchives.blogspot.com/2014/12/52-ancestors-50-john-kennedy-gowdy-and.html
Susan (nee) Miller Kessler, Quite the Mystery Mom
http://reflectionsfromthefence.blogspot.com/2014/12/sundays-stories-52-ancestor-weeks-week_14.html
CLARK, Benjamin Daniel, Lifelong Resident of Adams County, Ohio (52 Ancestors #49)
http://denisedigsroots.blogspot.com/2014/12/benjamin-daniel-clark-lifelong-resident.html
Huguenot Ancestors: Battaile,Bieber, Martiau, and Muse –52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, # 50
http://heart2heartstories.com/2014/12/15/huguenot-ancestors-battailebieber-martiau-and-muse-52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-50/
SCHOETTLER PERTIET, Maria Henriette
http://vorfahrensucher.de/maria-henriette-schoettler-pertiet/
SMITH, Helen Margaret – #13 http://denise-livinginthepast.blogspot.com/2014/12/52-ancestors-13-helen-margaret-smith.html
ERIKSEN, OTTERHOLT – Halvor Eriksen Otterholt
http://so-many-ancestors.blogspot.com/2014/12/52-ancestors-50-halvor-eriksen-otterholt.html
DENIGER – #50 Marie Catherine Deniger, married three times
http://yvonnesgenealogyblog.blogspot.ca/2014/12/52-ancestors-50-marie-catherine-deniger.html
BROWN Thomas Henderson – the best man and the bride’s sister, #52Ancestors #50
http://starryblackness.wordpress.com/2014/12/14/thomas-henderson-brown/
Written by Lynne Black, starryblackness
Meadows – Rolling into my Meadows #50
http://jinsalacoblog.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/week-50-december-13-2014-52-ancestor-52-week-blog-rolling-on-into-my-meadows/
MCGEE, Barnabas & Nancy-#50-First Settlers of Merigomish,Nova Scotia, Canada
http://pastremains.blogspot.com/2014/12/52-ancestors-50-barnabas-mcgee-and.html
Willie Ann ROWE (c. 1812-1874): Who are you?
https://digginupgraves.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/willie-ann-rowe-c-1812-1874-who-are-you-52-ancestors/
WEBSTER, Wesley ~ 52 Ancestors: #50 ~ Rev. Wesley Webster – Following In His Brother’s Footsteps
http://janasgenealogyandfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/2014/12/52-ancestors-50-rev-wesley-webster.html
CLAP, Benjamin #50 1710-1793, Scituate MA
http://twigsandtrees.blogspot.ca/2014/12/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-no-51-benjamin.html
Whoops – my CLAP, Benjamin is actually #51! I only have one more to go.
Show off 😉
Did it deliberately so I could have a week more or less away from the computer. But you know… it’s been a HUGE challenge for me
HAND, Phebe – had a lasting impact on the Vanderbilt family success
http://www.examiner.com/article/ancestor-50-phebe-hand-laid-the-foundation-for-vanderbilt-success
MCGHIE, CATHERINE – my Irish-Scottish maternal 3rd great-grandmother
52 Ancestors, Week #50 (wow!)
http://karenskin.com
FERVERDA – Barbara Jean Ferverda (1922-2006), Mother’s Gifts that Keep on Giving
http://dna-explained.com/2014/12/13/barbara-jean-ferverda-1922-2006-mothers-gifts-that-keep-on-giving-52-ancestors-50/
NOBLE – 52 Ancestors: #50 Edward Francis Noble (1877 – 1953) by Eileen A. Souza at Old Bones Genealogy
http://www.oldbonesgenealogy.com/52-ancestors-50-edward-francis-noble-1877-1953/
Fortunatus DODSON of Virginia http://rootsbranchesandnuts.blogspot.com/2014/12/fortunatus-dodson-1700-1737-52ancestors.html
BROWN, CLARK and KENDALL – Ida May Brown and the Clarks, Kendalls and Morris County, Kansas (52 Ancestors #50)
http://denisedigsroots.blogspot.com/2014/12/ida-may-brown-clarks-kendalls-and.html
PULLEYBLANK, John
http://pullyblank.com/wp/?m=201412
Harriet MOGRIDGE
http://pullyblank.com/wp/?m=201412
HUTTON, Nancy Hazel (1899-1997) 52 Ancestors # 50
http://connectingthefamily.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/52-ancestors-50-nancy-hazel-hutton.html
#50 : Hugh ‘Pop’ Benson fought in the Boer War, WW1 and WW2 before dying aged almost 62 in a Prisoner of War camp in Germany with a 12 gun salute from friend and foe.
http://branchesofmytree.weebly.com/52-week-challenge/w50-hugh-pop-benson-obe-and-war-hero
Charles TROUTMAN, Take 3
https://digginupgraves.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/charles-troutman-take-3-52-ancestors/
#48 TAYLOR, George, Sr. (1795 -1862), pioneer settler of Puslinch Twp., Wellington County, Upper Canada – http://jahcmft.blogspot.com/2014/12/52-ancestors-49-george-taylor-sr-1795.html
and
#49 Mc GREGOR / GREGOR James (???? – before 1852), immigrated to Canada from Scotland in 1834 with his family [he was a forester on the grounds of the castle that became a set for the 1991 film “Rob Roy”] – http://jahcmft.blogspot.com/2014/12/52-ancestors-49-james-mcgregorgregor.html
Abraham GOAD of Virginia http://rootsbranchesandnuts.blogspot.com/2014/12/abraham-goad-1665-1734-52ancestors-50.html
PATTISON, Ann http://www.researchergal.blogspot.ca/2014/12/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-51-ann-pattison.html
#38 James Appleby – Perukemaker Thorpe Le Soken Essex
http://wp.me/pVZrr-gX
#39 Mary Ann Webb & Godfrey Wells Thorpe Le Soken
https://baker1865.wordpress.com/2014/12/26/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-39-mary-ann-webb-godfrey-wells-thorpe-le-soken/
Mary Ann Webb & Godfrey Wells Thorpe Le Soken – what happened Godfrey and Mary? their daughter is in the 1841 census living with her uncle (she was aged 3) and in 1851 she is with her Grandmother – aged 13.
#37 Grace Nicholson Weeley Essex
https://baker1865.wordpress.com/2014/12/14/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-37-grace-nicholson-weeley-essex/
#36 Thomas Webb and Grace Nicholson: Thorpe Le Soken Essex
https://baker1865.wordpress.com/2014/12/14/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-36-thomas-webb-and-grace-nicholson-thorpe-le-soken-essex/
#35 Mary Pritty 1800 Wivenhoe
https://baker1865.wordpress.com/2014/12/06/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-35-mary-pritty-1800-wivenhoe/