Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Do Some Semi-Random Research
1) We're going to do a little bit of Semi-Random Research tonight... 2) Go to your family tree database of choice and determine who the very last person on your list of B names is. 3) What do you know (or not know) about this person based on your research? It's OK to do more research if you need to - in fact, it's encouraged! 4) How are you related to this person, and why is s/he in your family tree? 5) Tell us about it in a blog post of your own, in a comment to this blog post, or in a Facebook Status post or Google+ Stream post. My last “B” name in my RootsMagic database is Joanna A. Byrd. She was married to Jesse Ellis Lancaster, my first cousin 4 times removed. His grandfather, Ellis Wilson Lancaster, is my 4th great grandfather. I did not know very much about her so did some research today. Jesse Ellis is the son of James R. Lancaster and Mary Ann Butler. He was born in Dec 1866 in Texas and married Joanna A. Byrd in Parker County, Texas on