My entries in Amy Johnson Crow’s family history blogging challenge for 2015.
Th
e challenge: have one blog post each week devoted to a specific ancestor. It could be a story, a biography, a photograph, an outline of a research problem — anything that focuses on one ancestor.
Amy’s 2015 version of this challenge focuses on a different theme each week.
- #52Ancestors: A Fresh Start for Immigrant Great Grandfather Jose Robledo (1875-1937)
- #52Ancestors: King’s Soldier and Alta California Ranchero Manuel Nieto
- #52Ancestors: Great Grandmother Sarah Kennedy, a Tough Woman to Research
- #52Ancestors: Closest Birthday, Uncle Robledo Shares My Birthday
- #52Ancestors: George Walter Harless Plowing Through 1940s Yosemite
- #52Ancestors: Grandfather Benjamin Robledo, So Far Away in WWII New Caledonia
- #52Ancestors: Foster Brother & Sister-in-Law Verne and Edna Buckley Taught My Orphaned Grandfather How to Love
- Manuel Nieto Project #52Ancestors: The 1834 Breakup of Rancho Los Nietos in Alta California
- #52Ancestors: Grandmother Rosie Salas Married Benjamin Robledo Surprisingly Close to My Home
- #52Ancestors: Storms Surrounding General Washington’s Bodyguard, Sergeant William Pace
- #52Ancestors: My Favorite Irish Ancestor, Grandpa Michael John Flanagan (1927-1997)
- #52Ancestors: Beginning the Search for My Birth Mother, with Whom I Share Half the Same DNA
- #52Ancestors: Different DNA, but Same Family History — My Parents
- #52Ancestors: My Favorite Photo, the Only Photo of Me with My Great-Grandmother Maria (Nieto) Robledo
- #52Ancestors: Fourth great-grandfather Jose Victoriano Compean exemplifies Mexican naming conventions
- #52Ancestors: Maria Aurelia Compean (1858-1963), Lived to Be 105 or 100 or 95 Years of Age
- #52Ancestors: 2nd Great-Uncle Juvenal Joseph Nieto, Trying to Prosper Amid WWI Butte Mining Town Turmoil
- #52Ancestors: 2nd Great-Grandfather William Alexander McNamara, First DNA-Identified McNamara Ancestor
- #52Ancestors: The Way My Robledo and Nieto Family Immigrated to the U.S.
- #52Ancestors: First DNA Step Towards Confirming the Identity of Black Sheep Great Grand Uncle William E. Hayes
- #52Ancestors: Great Uncle Jose Robledo, Jr., WWII Vet, Interred at Los Angeles National Cemetery
- #52Ancestors: Grandfather William Wallace Greene’s Four Years at 1920s Phoenix Union High School
- #52Ancestors: An English Translation for the Mexico Marriage Record of 2nd Great-Grandfather Refugio Nieto
- #52Ancestors: Treasured Heirloom, MIL Betty Sue Pace’s Well-Worn Bible Allowed Her to be Part of Our Wedding
- #52Ancestors: 2nd Great-Grandfather Leonard Jackson Harless Homesteaded in California
- #52Ancestors: DNA Proves Our Pace Research is Only Halfway Right
- #52Ancestors: The Revolutionary War Pension Affidavit of 5th Great-Grandfather Ferdinand Harless
- #52Ancestors: Hoping to Find the Birth Record for Grandfather Roy Delmar Pace on My Upcoming Texas Road Trip
- #52Ancestors: Great-Aunt Clara Irene Pace Tragically Taken by Meningitis at 15 Years Old
- #52Ancestors: Finally Finding a Death Certificate and Obituary for Great-Grandmother Laura Mae (Fields) Pace
- #52Ancestors: 2nd Great-Grandfather William Sanford Fields Imprisoned for Rape in 1898 Texas
- #52Ancestors: Celedonia Robledo, Discovering Another Mexico-Born Sister for My Grandfather
Check out the 52 Ancestors that I profiled throughout 2014!
This must be the missing child we discussed on your April 19th post?
Hi Kathy,
Thanks for stopping by again!
No. The April 19th post was about my grandfather Benjamin. But it is the same family. This is the older sister of Benjamin. I am on the lookout for any other unknown children as well. Still stumped on Grandpa Ben, but I’m going to explore Long Beach, California church records after SLIG in January (no time until them).
Sorry not to be clear. Didn’t that birth certificate say 4 children had been born to the mother, so if you already have Guadalupe and Refgio Rafael, and Raymond was actually your grandfather Benjamin, then would Celedenia be the unidentified birth?
Ah! Yes! That would indeed make four births. Thanks for catching that! I’m so focused on the Mexico part of their family records right now that I have not gone back and and revisited their early US/CA records yet.