Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):
1) Thinking about your direct ancestors back through 2nd great-grandparents – in other words, ancestors #2 to #31 on your pedigree chart – how many children did they have? How many lived long enough to marry? How many died before age 10?
2) Tell us all about it in a blog post of your own, in comments on this blog post, or in a post on Facebook. Be sure to link to them in a comment on this blog post.
#4-5: Leon Russel Crawford (1894-1976) and Winnie Letha Currey (1903-1992) – had three children, 2 males and 1 female with only 1 male who married
#6-7: Edward Osmond Briles (1891-1956) and Pauline Edith Mentzer (1896-1984) – had five children with 1 male dying young and 1 male and 3 female marrying
#8-9: Judson Foster Crawford (1866-1949) and Josie Winifred Hammond (1874-1954) – had 7 children with 1 male dying as a young adult and 2 males and 4 females marrying
#10-11: Hiram Miles Currey (1866-1943) and Winnie Mae Hutchinson (1871-1913) – had 9 children with 3 males dying young and 2 males and 4 females marrying
#12-13: Edward Grant Briles (1869-1951) and Frances Artlissa Ricketts (1868-1947) – had 4 children, 2 males and 2 females, who all married
#14-15: Charles Oliver Mentzer (1869-1955) and Nettie Adell Wells (1873-1939) had 5 children, 3 males and 2 females, who all married
#16-17: Washington Marion Crawford (1838-1889) and Mary Foster (1842-1929) had 5 children with 1 daughter dying in her teens and 2 males and 2 females reaching adulthood and marrying
#18-19: Richmond Fisk Hammond (1840-1928) and Sarah Ellen Ralston (1849-1892) – had 9 children with 4 males dying young, 1 unmarried adult male, 1 married adult male and 3 married adult females.
#20-21: Hiram M Currey (1835-1901) and Angelina Jane Burke (1836-1901) has 10 children with 2 males dying young, 4 married males and 4 married females.
#22-23: Albert Hutchinson (1838-1896) and Julia Harding (1840-1892) – had 10 children with 3 males and 1 female dying young along with 3 married males and 3 married females
#24-25: Noah Washington Briles (1840-1879) and Sarah Jane Thompson (1843-1930) – had two children, a male and a female, both of whom married
#26-27 James Marshall Ricketts (1847-1920) and Rachel Elmeda Christy (1845-1927) – had 8 children with 2 females dying young, 2 married males and 4 married females.
#28-29: George Mentzer (1838-1912) and Emeline Minnick (1848-1927) had 8 children with 6 married males and 2 married females
#30-31: Thurston Kennedy Wells (1821-1893) and Salome Adell Crandall (1836-1893) had 4 children with a male and a female dying young and 2 married females
From my 2nd great-grandparents, I have 41 potential DNA lines where I need to track descendants.
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