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Accentuate the Positive Geneameme 2019

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Jill Ball has set a January challenge on GeniAus for a yearly blog to Accentuate the Positive, this is my 2019 effort. The challenge has 20 set points to cover (or amend etc). An elusive ancestor I found was – on the maternal side of my Webster ancestry. Finding Hugh aka Heugh (Elder) Frazer who married Jannet Baverage on 31 July 1702 in Wemyss Parish in Fife thus extending this line to my 7th great-grandfather.[1] A great newspaper article I … Continue reading

Remember to Accentuate the Positive Geneameme 2017

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2018 is the 6th consecutive year that Jill Ball has set a challenge on GeniAus. After reading on Facebook two great blogs by Pauleen Cass and Shauna Hicks I decided to take up this challenge myself. 1. An elusive ancestor I found was: No new direct ancestors unfortunately, but I did find another sister to my maternal great-grandmother. As she married prior to the majority of the family emigrating, I had missed her. On checking her and her little family … Continue reading