Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - The Date You Were Born

It's Saturday Night - time for more Genealogy Fun!

Youir mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:

1) What day of the week were you born? Tell us how you found out.

2) What has happened in recorded history on your birth date (day and month)? Tell us how you found out, and list five events.

3)  What famous people have been born on your birth date?  Tell us how you found out, and list five of them.

4)  Put your responses in your own blog post, in a comment on this blog post, or in a status or comment on Facebook.

1. I was born on a Tuesday, October 6, 1942. I found out at the ProGenealogists site under 
    free stuff.
2. 5 things that happened in history on October 6 and were found at Networked Blogs/Brainy  History
   1979 Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House
   1928 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China
   1928 Josip Broz sentenced to 5 years in jail
   1927 "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (New York City)
   1890 Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
3 Famous people born on October 6 are:
    1963 Elisabeth Shue (actress)
   1930 Hafez al-Assad (president syria)
   1914 Thor Heyerdahl (explorer, author)
   1908 Carole Lombard (Jane Peters) (actress)
   1846 George Westinghouse (inventor, developer, founder)
I found this info at Networkedblogs.com

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - My Best 2010 Genealogy Adventure

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun!  A challenge posed by Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings.

1)  Decide which of your (many?) genealogy research adventures was your "very best" (your definition). 

2)  Tell us about it in a blog post of your own, in a comment to this blog post, or in a Status report or comment on Facebook.  


It started last March with a call from my nephew's wife.  Her father (Tony) was told in December that he had been given away at birth.  Tony was fighting a recurrence of cancer and wanted to try to find his birth father.  He had always felt that something was missing from his life.  There was little information to start with.  His father's family was from the San Antonio, TX area and entered the country from Mexico at Eagle Pass, TX.  The family name was Benevidas and Tony's father was named Ismael.  While Benevidas is fairly common, fortunately Ismael is rather unique.  


Using genealogy methodology, I did a search on ancestry.com.  I found an obituary that mentioned Ismael as the brother of the deceased Erasmo.  Erasmo and Ismael's father was also named Erasmo.  I found the Erasmo Benevidas family in Cibolo, TX in the 1930 census.  


Using whitepages.com I located some of the survivors of Erasmo Benevidas.  Armed with names, addresses, and phone numbers, Tony's daughter began making phone calls.  Within two days she had located Tony's two half brothers.  Unfortunately, Tony's father had died but the brothers were aware of his existance.  In May the three brothers had a meeting and couldn't believe the family resemblance.


While maybe not true genealogy,  this was a very gratifying use of my genealogy skills.