Category: Melvin Family history

Fearless Females 13: Moments of Strength – Emily Melvin

14 March, 2012

In honour of Women’s History  Month, Lisa Alzo of The Accidental Genealogist blog presents Fearless Females: 31 Blogging Prompts to Celebrate Women’s History Month. This post is my response to Day 13, Moments of Strength. Emily Partridge was the second wife of Stephen Gillespie Melvin. His fist wife, Janet Melvin, had died fifteen months earlier on Peel … More Fearless Females 13: Moments of Strength – Emily Melvin

Fearless Females: The tragic stories of Julia Kunkel and Janet Melvin

11 March, 2012

Lisa Alzo of The Accidental Genealogist blog presents Fearless Females: 31 Blogging Prompts to Celebrate Women’s History Month. March 11 — Did you have any female ancestors who died young or from tragic or unexpected circumstances? Describe and how this affected the family? There are two tragic deaths of young women in my family tree. One was … More Fearless Females: The tragic stories of Julia Kunkel and Janet Melvin

Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories 2011: 8th December – Christmas Cookies or Biscuits

8 December, 2011

Thomas MacEntee at Geneabloggers is encouraging us to celebrate the 2011 Christmas season with a series of posts called the Advent Calendar of Memories. This is today’s entry. Did your family or ancestors make Christmas biscuits (cookies)? How did you help? Did you have a favourite biscuit? I think that the Christmas biscuit treat that … More Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories 2011: 8th December – Christmas Cookies or Biscuits

Surname Saturday meme: Names, Places and Most Wanted Faces

19 November, 2011

Geneabloggers set this Surname Saturday meme last Saturday but with family commitments last weekend and coming in late, I decided to wait until this week.  This meme is a revival of an old topic by Craig Manson of Geneablogie. How The Meme Works To participate, do the following at your own blog and post a link … More Surname Saturday meme: Names, Places and Most Wanted Faces

The Ancestors’ Geneameme challenge from Geniaus

15 October, 2011

Geniaus has set us another challenge with The Ancestors’ Geneameme. This is my response to the challenge. The list should be annotated in the following manner: Things you have already done or found: bold face type Things you would like to do or find: italicize (colour optional) Things you haven’t done or found and don’t … More The Ancestors’ Geneameme challenge from Geniaus

Heritage Pie: a slice or two of ancestral places

21 July, 2011

Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun included making a “Heritage Pie” chart for the country of origin (birth place) for these 16 ancestors. [Hint: you could use the  chart generator from Kid Zone for this.] [Note: Thank you to Sheri Fenley for the “Heritage Pie” chart idea.] For a bit of light relief I thought I’d bake … More Heritage Pie: a slice or two of ancestral places