Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Turning Points Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It’s Saturday Night again – time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): Family stories are often about “Turning Points” and “Major Decisions.” This week, please describe a turning point in the life of one of your parents (or grandparents).

A single decision changed everything. My dad’s choice to return to school set our family on a new path—new towns, new schools, and new opportunities. This week’s #SaturdayNightGenealogyFun explores a true turning point in our family story.

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):1) Write a story using the phrase "ancestor I really admire" in 200 words. My grandmother, Winnie Currey Crawford, is an ancestor I really admire. She unknowingly set me on my genealogy path when she wondered aloud where her own grandmother was buried.

This week’s #SaturdayNightGenealogyFun honors an ancestor I really admire—my grandmother, Winnie Currey Crawford. Her resilience through hardship and devotion to family inspired my lifelong genealogy journey.

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun — RootsTech 2026 Sessions Randy has asked us this week about the sessions we're really looking forward to during this week's RootsTech event: 1) Are you registered for RootsTech 2026 yet? It's less than six weeks away - March 5-7, 2026. 2) What are you looking forward to either attending in-person or online? What keynote talks, classes, or other events are you planning to attend?

Some Saturday night genealogy fun - choosing Roots Tech 2026 sessions to view online #RootsTech2026 #genealogylearning #genealogyconference #onlinelearning #genealogyfun #saturdaynightgenealogyfun

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – blog posts that touched, impressed, and helped me… A thought provoking assignment from Randy tonight: 1)  Review the last three or four "Best of the Genea-Blogs" posts (see 2)  Pick one of the articles listed that either helped you with your research or your writing, and/or that touched your emotions, and/or you are really impressed by. Similar to Randy, I found examples of all three: A)  I was touched by Doris Kenney's post…

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - blog posts that touched, impressed, and helped me... #SaturdayNightGenealogyFun #genealogyeducation #genealogybloggers

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun… Create a 500 Word Biography Using AI From a Genealogical Sketch/Notes/Timeline/AMT Facts While in general I don't use generative AI (for a variety of reasons), I decided to accept Randy's challenge for this week. Here's the assignment he set us: 1) Select an ancestor, and a genealogical sketch (or research notes, or a timeline, or Ancestry Member Tree profile, etc.) for that ancestor and create a PDF of the sketch/notes/timeline/AMT Facts page/etc.

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun... Create a 500 Word Biography Using AI From a Genealogical Sketch/Notes/Timeline/AMT Facts #SaturdayNightGenealogyFun #GenealogyFun #Beakefamilygenealogy

Sunday Evening Genealogy Fun – Pick an Ancestor: What Story Lines Do You Want To Explore? Another great exercise from Randy this week: Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to: 1)  Pick one of your ancestors that you want to know more about.  Based on your knowledge of their life, what story lines do you want to explore? At this point in my research, it won't surprise regular readers of this blog that my choice for this mission is Elizabeth Fuller, my 6x great-grandmother (redacted for privacy - click image to enlarge):

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun — Five Reference Books For Beginning Genealogy Researchers Randy's challenge this week forces us to narrow down our list of reference books for beginners to only 5! Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:   1)  What five reference books (and only 5) would you recommend to a beginning genealogy  researcher to have on their bookshelf? It's definitely tough to limit my list to only 5 books, but I persevered - here's my list:

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Five Reference Books For Beginning Genealogy Researchers #genealogyfun #SaturdayNightGenealogyFun #referencebooksforgenealogists