Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- The Date Your Grandmother Was Born
It's Saturday Night,
time for more Genealogy Fun!!
For this week's mission (should you decide to accept it), I challenge you to:1) What day of the week was your Grandmother born (either one)? Tell us how you found out.
2) What event was a headline in the newspapers on that date? Tell us how you found out.
3) What has happened in recorded history on your Grandmother's birth date (day and month)? Tell us how you found out, and list five events.
4) What famous people have been born on your Grandmother's birth date? Tell us how you found out, and list five of them.
5) Put your responses in your own blog post, in a comment on this blog post, or in a status or comment on Facebook.
Because it is St Patrick's Day, I have chosen to begin with my Irish Grandmother Alice Fleming Connery, According to family tradition, Alice was born to Thomas and Mary Hennessy Fleming on 1 January 1872 in Ballylanders, Co Limerick, Ireland. Although Irish Civil Registration provides this information:
| Name: | Alace Fleming | |||
| Gender: | Female | |||
| Birth Date: | 31 Dec 1871 | |||
| Birthplace: | Limerick, Ireland | |||
| Father's Name: | Thomas Fleming | |||
| Mother's Name: | Mary Hennessy | |||
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C01237-8 , System Origin: Ireland-EASy , GS Film number:255846 , Reference ID: v 4-2 p 993 *
I cannot at this time determine which is the correct date although I suspect that the actual birth was 31 Dec 1871 with a baptism date of 1 Jan 1871. Perhaps this summer when the Catholic Church records for Ireland are released the actual date can be determined. For this project I will use both dates.
Alice was born either on Sunday 31 Dec 1871 or on Monday 1 Jan 1872. To determine this I used a google search for the phrase "calender January 1872"
These were the headlines in the New York Times on 31 Dec 1871 and below are the headings from the Chicago Tribune for 1 Jan .1872.
For this information I accessed my newspapers.com account.
These were the headlines in the New York Times on 31 Dec 1871 and below are the headings from the Chicago Tribune for 1 Jan .1872.For this information I accessed my newspapers.com account.
