Family Tree Frog

  Walter William Forfar with grand-daughter Shirley Cornwall and Ray Jeffrey Ahnentafel Number 14 Context for discovery: This biography was written as part of the 52 ancestors in 52 weeks exercise devised by Amy Johnson Crow.  You can join in too here. The theme for this week is Extended Family. Amy says: We often focus on those people from whom we descend. But what about their siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins? They played a role in our ancestors' lives, just like those people play a role in our own lives. This is a good week to explore the lives of these other people in the family tree. Walter was my great-grandfather on my maternal side. This blog post is a compilation of several blog posts I have written about Walter and his family. Childhood Birth Date/Place : Walter William Forfar, also known as Dick Forfar, was the youngest of three brothers. 1.     George Robert born 6th October 1873 (died 16th April 1946) [i] 2.   ...

Randy from Genea-Musings says: 1)  Take both sets of your grandparents and figure out how many first cousins you have, and how many first cousins removed (a child or grandchild of a first cousin) you have. 2)  Extra Credit:  Take all four sets of your great-grandparents and figure out how many second cousins you have, and how many second cousins removed you have. HINT:  Make a Descendants Chart with your genealogy software program! 3)  Tell us the grandparents and great-grandparents names, but don't give the name of living cousins unless you want to.   4)  Are there any of those lines that you don't know all of the cousins names?  Do you care?   5)  Tell us about them in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a Facebook or Google+ post of your own.  Be sure to drop a comment to this post to link to your work.  Well, if this isn't a good way of checking your family tree is up to date, I don'...