It isn't actually December yet, but Randy Seaver is getting into the retail spirit and starting Christmas early for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun:
Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along; cue the Mission: Impossible! music!):
(1) Only 25 days until Christmas now! Have you been a good genea-boy or genea-girl?
(2) What gift should Genea-Santa bring you for Christmas? What do you need, or want, to help you with your family history, your research, etc.?
(3) Tell us in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or on Facebook. Please leave a comment with a link to your blog post.
Well, I think I've been a good genea-girl this past year. I volunteer at my local Family History Center every week. I support my local genealogical societies by coordinating a research group, editing a journal, scheduling programming, giving presentations, and serving on two boards. I'm sure I could do better, but I do put in a lot of time.
As for what gift I would like from Genea-Santa, I'm going to sound like a broken record, but what I want the most is to find out what happened to the son my Aunt Dottie gave up for adoption in 1945. She gave him the name Raymond Lawrence Sellers. We have no idea what name he was given later. I've done everything I know to do: Dottie's DNA is in the Family Tree DNA, MyHeritage, and GEDMatch databases; Raymond's siblings (full and half) are in AncestryDNA and 23andMe. I'm at a dead end with state research, because this all happened in New Jersey, and they aren't very friendly on this subject. Dottie registered as being willing to accept contact if Raymond should look for her, but that's all Jersey allows. They give out no information. Dottie is now 94, and I fear age is catching up with her. I keep hoping we'll find a DNA match, but no luck so far. If there is anything else I can do to help further the search, I'm open to suggestions.
I hope Genea-Santa puts that gift under Dottie's tree this year.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much for the good thoughts.
DeletePerhaps he passed away without any issue.
ReplyDeleteI have considered that as a possibility, trust me.
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