Hunting History - Finding Family

I wasn't even going to blog today.  I've been working on my German side of my tree (Heigert) for foreve, and I'd actually put it down recently to work on the other branches.  My cousin Ruth sent me a message last night saying she was making another trip to Germany, and will be spending three days in the town our side is from, Waldulm, and did I have any new tree information.  Well, I hadn't since I hadn't been working on it, but I have a week off of work and thought it wouldn't hurt to time suck at least one day and spend it updating our Heigert side.  So this morning I went to FamilySearch and typed in "Higert" and Waldulm, Germany.  That's it. So I got 20 pages of records, all pertaining to my family and their town of origin. I kept coming across records for children of  Cäzilia Higert and Benedikt Hausmann.  I don't have them in my tree, but those records kept coming up, so I started a new branch.  This actually works out perfect for last ...

So for this weeks 52 in 52 I'm not following the challenge prompt, which is "Surprise."  I have blogged many surprising facts and discoveries and it would probably take me all week to find one I haven't blogged about.  Not just that, but there's a fun little thing making it's rounds on the genealogy groups and I liked it so much I wanted to blog it instead.  Basically people are saying who was alive when they were born vs who isn't now, extending to parents, grandparents, great grandparents, etc.  I thought this was a neat little bit on information and thought I could expand on it for a full post. When I was born in 1983 I had: -Two Parents --14 Aunts & Uncles (including spouses) ---Three grandparents ----13 Great Aunts & Uncles (not counting spouses) -----Two great grandparents Now, in 2019 I have: -Two Parents --14 Aunts & Uncles (including spouses) ---no grandparents ----2 Great Aunts & Uncles (not including spouses) -----n...