As May comes to a close, we’re finishing up with the always enjoyable Saturday Night Genealogy Fun with Randy Seaver.

Today’s challenge is one that doesn’t require any thinking – I wouldn’t remember them all anyway. –

1)  Who are your 32 3rd-great-grandparents?  List them (with birth names).  Tell us when and where they were born, married and died.  [NOTE:  This is easily done in your genealogy software program or online family tree by making an Ahnentafel or Ancestors report from yourself as #1, then copy and paste.]

For whatever reason, RootsMagic 7 won’t let me copy and paste, so I’ll use Snagit to clip the list.

This is the earliest generation in which I know all my ancestors’ names on the Carpatho-Rusyn side of the family. As you can see, in some cases, I only know a name with an estimated birth year.

Since the church records begin in the late 1820s in my family villages, there won’t ever be more names added back in time.

What I enjoyed most about this challenge is that it touches every line of my “melting pot” heritage. The paternal side is Carpatho-Rusyn. Most of my mother’s side is colonial English, but Peter Crouse represents my Dutch line as his father was from Zeeland, Netherlands. Johannes Jensen, Niels Thomsen Bruun and Ana Amalie Christensatter Moller are my Danish ancestors and Johanna Elisabeth Molin brings in my Swedish line.

Thanks, Randy, for this week’s challenge. I’ve been busy all day today, so I’m very happy that this topic wasn’t one that required any time to think!