Mam-ma's Southern Family

Randy Seaver, of Genea-Musing has another mission for us: Your mission this week, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music!) , is to: 1)   How many generations do you have photographs or portraits of your ancestors and descendants?  It can be any line...it just can't be broken! 2)  Tell us the line, or better yet, show us the unbroken line.  Provide birth-death years, and the approximate date that the photograph or portrait was made. 3)  Share your generation picture line in a blog post of your own, or in a Facebook post, or in a comment to this post.  Well I have five generations that I can show in two photos and a third if I wish to double up in the center (which I’ll do). My second great-grandparents , Ebenezer Loveless and his wife, Eliza A. Rogers, along with their daughter, my great-grandmother , Lela Ann Loveless. My great-grandmother , Lela Ann (Loveless) Lancaster with her daughter ...

"http://worldartsme.com/">WorldArtsMe Eight years ago today I attended a class at the California Genealogical Society on starting a blog. It was great fun and I have enjoyed these past eight years. I have not written as much on this blog. It has limited subject matter, being the ancestors of my maternal grandmother. I have another blog that covers the rest of my family and my husband's family, and I tend to make more posts there. Over the past year, I have written 21 posts. Several of them got great reception. Here are the five with the most views: Lancaster Family in Rockwall County, Texas 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 30: Colorful – Earliest Color Photo in the Johnston Family 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 19: Mother’s Day 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 8: Where There’s a Will: the Will of James Loveless of Greenville Co, SC Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Relatives With Facial Hair I am continuing the 52 Ancestors meme this coming year ...

This is my second year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow . I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past . I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. In October 1995, I took my grandmother, Pansy Louise Lancaster Johnston, whom I call Mam-ma, on a trip to Stephenville, Texas, so I could see where my mother grew up. My mother had passed away on 2 Feb 1992, so I couldn’t take her, or even ask her about her early life in Texas before moving to California. I hadn’t started my genealogy adventure until after her death and I have such regrets now. So I thought the next best thing would be to take my grandmother to Texas where she could show me first-hand some of the places they lived. I paid for the trip, and she made the arrangements with family as to where we would stay. We were picked up from the airport in Fort Worth by my grandfather’s niece, Sa...