Genea-Musings

It's Saturday Night - time for some Genealogy Fun (even though I'm stuck in Santa Cruz without Internet access).

Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):

1) How old is your father now, or how old would he be if he had lived? Divide this number by 4 and round the number off to a whole number. This is your "roulette number."

2) Use your pedigree charts or your family tree genealogy software program to find the person with that number in your ahnentafel. Who is that person?

3) Tell us three facts about that person with the "roulette number."

4) Write about it in a blog post on your own blog, in a Facebook note or comment, or as a comment on this blog post.

5) If you do not have a person's name for your "roulette number" then spin the wheel again - pick your mother, or yourself, a favorite aunt or cousin, or even your children!

Here's mine (I had to go into Ancestry.com to find this out...):

1) My father was born in 1911, so he would have been 97 right now. Dividing by 4 gives me 18.75, rounded off to 19.

2) #19 in my ahnentafel is Edward Hildreth, born 30 April 1831 in Townsend, Middlesex, MA to Zachariah and Hannah (Sawtell) Hildreth, and died 26 April 1899 in Leominster, Worcester, MA. He married Sophia Hildreth on 25 December 1852 in Northborough, Worcester, MA, and they had two children - Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920) and Clarence Hildreth (1874-1878).

I don't think I've written about Edward Hildreth before on Genea-Musings. He's a second great-grandfather that my father and his siblings never met since he died before his grandson Frederick Walton Seaver was married in 1900. There were no memories of him passed down by his daughter to her grandchildren that I know of.

3) Three facts:

* Edward Hildreth was listed as a combmaker in the 1860 census, worked in a machine shop in the 1870 census, and was listed as a machinist in the 1880 census.

* The Edward and Sophia (Newton) Hildreth home was located at 146 Lancaster Street in Leominster, Worcester, MA.

* Edward Hildreth died intestate. His probate records are in Worcester County Probate Records, Enclosure 25,255 B (reviewed at Worcester County Court House in Worcester, MA). Administration was granted on 24 October 1899 to his widow, Sophia Hildreth, who posted a bond on $3,000 on that date. No inventory was made or filed. The heirs-at-law were listed as:

** Sophia Hildreth, Leominster, Mass., widow.
** Hattie L. Seaver, Leominster, Mass., daughter.

4) I did it in this post!

PS: Will someone please post a link to this on Twitter and Facebook for me? Thanks!

Labels: Family Trees, My genealogy research, SNGF, strange or funny