It’s time for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun with Randy Seaver on Genea-Musings. Being Father’s Day weekend, he has a fatherly challenge for us this week:
1) It’s Father’s Day on Sunday. This week, tell us about the fathers in your tree — their names, their birth and death years and locations, their occupations, the number of spouses, the number of children, etc. Go back at least through your known second great-grandfathers.
Here’s my pedigree chart, beginning with my parents:
Father: #2 George Michael Sabo (1926 NJ to 1985 NJ), Purchasing agent, 1 spouse, 1 son and 1 daughter
Grandfather: #4 George Kucharik aka Sabo (1893 Slovakia to 1936 NJ), Business owner (meat market), 1 spouse, 1 son
Grandfather: #6 Vernon Tarbox Adams (1899 ME to 1968 MA), Western Union manager, 1 spouse, 3 daughters
Great Grandfather: #8 Stephen Kucharik (1858 Slovakia to 1933 NJ), day laborer, 1 spouse, 3 sons, 3 daughters, 1 child died at birth
Great Grandfather: #10 Michael Scerbak (1868 Slovakia to 1932 Slovakia), day laborer, 1 spouse, 2 daughters, 4 sons, 1 child died at birth
Great Grandfather: #12 Charles Edwin Adams (1877 ME to 1922 ME), Business owner (ladies’ accessories), 1 spouse, 1 son
Great Grandfather: #14 Hartwell Thomas Coleman (1868-1938), Master mariner, 3 spouses, 2 daughters, 1 son
2nd Great Grandfather: #16 John Kucharik aka Tomko (1820 Slovakia to 1893 Slovakia), Day laborer, 1 spouse, 5 sons, 3 daughters
2nd Great Grandfather: #18 Michael Kacsenyak (1834 Slovakia to after 1899 Slovakia), Day laborer, 1 spouse, 7 daughters, 3 sons
2nd Great Grandfather: #20 John Scerbak (1836 Slovakia to 1916 Slovakia), Day laborer, 1 spouse, 4 sons, 4 daughters
2nd Great Grandfather: #22 John Murcko (1831 Slovakia to 1917 Slovakia), Day laborer, 1 spouse, 1 son, 4 daughters
2nd Great Grandfather: #24 Calvin Segee Adams (1843 Canada to 1921 Canada), Boat builder, 2 spouses, 1 son, 2 daughters
2nd Great Grandfather: #26 Charles Augustus Stewart (1822 ME to 1894 ME), Farmer, 1 spouse, 4 sons, 4 daughters
2nd Great Grandfather: #28 William Coleman (1834 Canada to 1905 ME), Master mariner, 1 spouse, 4 sons, 2 daughters
2nd Great Grandfather: #30 Frits Wille Oscar Emil Jensen aka Johnson (1845 Denmark to 1920 ME), 1 spouse, 1 son, 4 daughters
This activity has made me realize that I need to write several ancestor sketches for people in this list. It’s also made me notice that only two of my paternal ancestors on this list – Hartwell Coleman and Calvin Adams married more than once. In both cases, their wives died young.
Thanks, Randy, for an excellent Father’s Day challenge this week.
You have lots of day laborers. Any idea of the kind of labor they did?
What ever they could get paid for, usually not with cash, but work in kind or trading food – farm work, shepherds in the mountains and working for the local noble.
It was interesting to look at your fathers’ occupations and see Master mariner twice (father and son or grandson?) and boat builder. They must have lived near the ocean or some other large bodies of water.
I assume that day laborers had skills in several different areas, but maybe not.
You didn’t mention the occupation of the last gg-grandfather on your list. Do you know what he did?
Nothing, according to my grandmother. That’s why her father kicked him out of the house. He refused to work! Master mariners are father and son. My grandmother’s brother was the third generation of the family to become one.