Hey genea-taphophiles - it's Saturday Night again --
time for more Genealogy Fun!!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:
1) Determine what is your longest unbroken line of ancestral gravestones - how many generations can you go back in time? Do you have photographs of them?
2) Tell us and/or show us in a blog post of your own, or in a comment to this blog, or in a Facebook status or a Google+ stream post.
Here's mine:
1. My father, Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) in Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery (San Diego, Calif.):
2. My grandfather, Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) in Evergreen Cemetery (Leominster, Mass.):
3) My great-grandfather, Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in Evergreen Cemetery (Leominster, Mass.):
4) My second-great-grandfather, Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) in Evergreen Cemetery (Leominster, Mass.):
5) My third-great-grandfather, Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825) in Whitmanville Cemetery (Westminster, Mass.):
6) My fourth-great-grandfather, Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816) in Whitmanville Cemetery (Westminster, Mass.):
7) My fifth-great-grandfather, Norman Seaver (1734-1787) in Woodside Cemetery (Westminster, Mass.):
8) I think that my sixth-great-grandfather, Robert Seaver (1702-1752) is buried in Westminster, Mass., but I don't know where.
So - I have pictures of 7 known gravestones in my Seaver patrilineal line.
I have more generations of gravestones in the Seaver/Smith line - back to Henry Smith (1680-1743) in Vine Lake Cemetery (Medifeld, Mass.). The last two generations of the line are on Find-A-Grave in pictures:
1) to 3) as above.
4) Lucretia T. (Smith) Seaver (1828-1884) - seen in 4) Isaac Seaver above.
5) My third-great-grandfather, Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840) in Vine Lake Cemetery (Medfield, Mass.):
6) My fourth-great-grandfather, Aaron Smith (1765-1841) in Vine Lake Cemetery (Medfield, Mass.):
7) My fifth-great-grandfather, Moses Smith (1732-1806) in Plains Cemetery (Walpole, Mass.) on Find-A-Grave.
8) My sixth great-grandfather, Henry Smith (1680-1743) in Vine Lake Cemetery (Medfield, Mass.) on Find-A-Grave.
So I can account for 8 generations of gravestones in photographs in this Seaver/Smith line.
The URL for this post is: http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/10/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-your.html
Copyright (c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver
9 comments:
This was a great project Randy! I have mine up at http://www.findingourancestors.net/?p=3436
Great idea for October, Randy! Here's mine: http://baysideblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/sngf-longest-gravestone-line/
Thanks, Randy! Here's mine:
http://gatapleytree.blogspot.com/2012/10/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-your.html
I wasn't able to get very far. Here's my results: http://www.researchjournal.yourislandroutes.com/2012/10/sngf-ancestral-tombstones/
Here's mine - a little late: http://bit.ly/RXVMFj - took me longer than I planned!
Cool...I can only go back to my great grandfather.
Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
http://deltacountyhistoricalsociety.wordpress.com
This was an interesting challenge. Here is mine:
http://amongmybranches.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/genealogy-challenge-your-longest-gravestone-line/
I can go back to my 3rd. great grandfather (Rev. Kedar Hawthorne 1797-1877). I'm working on my 4th.
P.S. I like how you use the old abbreviations for the states.
I just took this challege -- I had to put a little bit of different flare to it to make it work. I enjoyed this one - great task!
http://acoupleofwhiles.blogspot.com/2012/10/my-longest-ancestral-grave-site-line.html
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