Know your ancestors

I posted this on my Letters to Grandpa blog today and by accident posted it on this one as well. I will leave it, because I feel impressed to do so. 

You might want to print this out and answer the questions.  If you have trouble answering the questions, you can always ask.

Where was your mother born?

Where was your father born?

How many siblings does your mother have?

Can you name them?

How many siblings does your father have?

Can you name them?

How many first cousins do you have?

Where was your grandmother Gee born?

What was her maiden name?

Where was your grandfather Gee born?

Where was your other grandmother born?

What was her maiden name?

Where was your other grandfather born?

What did he do for a living?

You had 2 ancestors who were general authorities in the church.  Can you name them?

The first Gee to come into the United States settled in Connecticut.  What did he do for a living?

His grandson moved to Ohio near to the town of Kirtland.  He did not join the church, which was organized in 1830, but his son joined the church in 1832.  What was his name?

Your grandmother Gee's ancestor had a vision.  What was that vision and what was her name?

How did it influence her to join the church.

True or False?

You had ancestors who came from:

1. England

2. France

3. Switzerland

4. Germany

5. Australia

6. Denmark

7. Holland

8. Baltic States

9. Russia

10. Greece

11. Africa

12. China

13. Mexico

14. South America

15. Wales

16. Scotland

17. Ireland

18. Austria

19. Italy

Cousins by the dozens

Cousins by the dozens

I recently have been working on Lysander Gee's descendents from my database of 5000+ individuals and have found a number of individuals who need ordinance work done. One of them was the ancestor of my third cousin once removed on my father's side who is married to my first cousin on my mother's side, so I did some searching and found a number of ordinances that needed to be done. 

I then went to my fathers side and found Elmo Cunningham Gee who was married to three wives and placed sources on his record and his wife's record. I was able to do this with my iPad while I was watching a ballgame during the halftime and timeouts. I was able to accomplish this while still watching the ball game. I also placed sources on Lillian Lucy Christiansen and Gladwyn Marie Mickelson's records.

I reserved some ordinance work and emailed my third cousin once removed and ask her if she would be interested in doing the ordinance work for those people, because they were in her direct ancestral line, not mine. She responded that she would be interested and that they were going to the temple this next month, so I sent her, by email, the family ordinance requests that I had reserved and now she has them in her possession and can have the ordinance work done. 

I will not document here the names of everyone that I found.  I will have to be more careful in documenting them in the future, but they will be noted in Family Tree with my name as the author on the sources and ordinance reservations.