Here’s the latest in the Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
challenges from Randy Seaver over at GeneaMusings:
Your mission, should you decide to accept
it (where's my Mission Impossible music...drat, lost it), is:
1) Who is your MRUA - your Most Recent Unknown Ancestor? This is the person with the lowest number in your Pedigree Chart or Ahnentafel List that you have not identified a last name for, or a first name if you know a surname but not a first name.
2) Have you looked at your research files for this unknown person recently? Why don't you scan it again just to see if there's something you have missed?
3) What online or offline resources might you search that might help identify your MRUA?
1) Who is your MRUA - your Most Recent Unknown Ancestor? This is the person with the lowest number in your Pedigree Chart or Ahnentafel List that you have not identified a last name for, or a first name if you know a surname but not a first name.
2) Have you looked at your research files for this unknown person recently? Why don't you scan it again just to see if there's something you have missed?
3) What online or offline resources might you search that might help identify your MRUA?
As always, love Randy’s challenges! Always
keeping us on our toes, thinking outside of the box, and having fun doing it!
So, here are my answers:
1)
My MRUA is #31. Annette. She was the wife of
immigrant Joseph Eve [1829 – 1892].
We know that Annette and Joseph had at least 7 children, before she died at the
young age of 30 in 1870. [17-months later, with a houseful of small children,
Joseph married Annette Duboi and they
went on to have 8 children together, as well.] We have Annette’s birth and
death dates from her death record. However, this does not indicate her parents
names, and states she was born in Indiana, where she and Joseph are believed to
have wed.
2)
I check up every few months to try and locate
this one. My mother isn’t in the best of health, and this is one she’s always
wanted to find out, so I hope to find Annette’s ancestry before something
happens to Mother.
3)
Online sources haven’t seemed to assist me any
with this one, and I’ve run the gamut! However, I am hoping to make a trip to
Floyd County soon, and when I do I will be checking the archives there and hope
something will turn up!
Thanks again, Randy! As always, loved this challenge!
How about you, Reader? Try this challenge out for your own
MRUA! You never know when some small item, or place, will lead you to finding
that hidden identity you’ve been searching for!
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