Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Ahnentafel Roulette!
Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun has us first figure out how old our great grandfather would be now if he had lived. Then divide that number by 4 to get our “roulette number.” With this number, I find the ancestor with that number in my ahnentafel (ancestor) list. Then we are to write 3 facts we know about that person. Here’s mine: My great grandfather is George Warren Lancaster , born 19 Jan 1893. He would be 118 years old today if he still was living. Divide that age by 4 and I get 29.5. I’ll round that to 29 making my “roulette number” 29. No. 29 in my ancestor list is Martha Jane Coor (1873-1942). Here are 3 facts I know about Martha Jane “Doll” Coor: 1. Martha Jane was born 10 May 1873 in Crystal Springs, Copiah Co, Mississippi to James Madison Coor (1833-1890) and Melissa Ann Welch (1840-1976). She was the ninth child of ten and was only three years old when her mother died. Sometime between 1880 and 1890, the family moved to Erath Co, T