Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Play Ahnentafel Roulette

 From Randy over at Genea-Musings:

it's Saturday Night - 

time for more Genealogy Fun!!!

Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:

(1)  What year was one of your 2nd great-grandparents born? Divide this number by 70 and round the number off to a whole number.  This is your "roulette number."

(2)  Use your pedigree charts or your family tree genealogy software program to find the person with that number in your ancestral name list (some people call it an "ahnentafel" - our software will create this - use the "Ahnentafel List" option, or similar).  Who is that person, and what are his/her vital information?

(3)  Tell us three facts about that person in your ancestral name list with the "roulette number."

(4)  Tell us in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a post on Facebook.  

NOTE:  If you do not have a person's name for your "roulette number" then "spin" the wheel again - pick a great-grandmother, a grandfather, a parent, a favorite aunt or cousin, yourself, or even one of your children!  Or pick any ancestor!

Here's mine:

(1)  One of my 3rd great-grandparents was Catherine M Odom (1841-1875).  Dividing 1841 by 70 gives me a "roulette" number of 26 (26.3 rounded down).  

(2)  Number 26 in my Ahnentafel Report (created in Family Tree Maker 2019) is my 2nd great-grandfather, my very own brick wall, George W Schwalls Sr (1837-1908).  He married Lincelia E Claxton in 1866 in Edgefield County, South Carolina.  

(3)  Three facts about George W Schwalls Sr:

    *  George was German.

    *  George changed his name somewhat when he came to the United States.  I have seen his first name written as Jorge.  He also added an "s" to the end of his surname of Schwall.

    *  Filed petition with Johnson County Ordinary Court in September 1887, asking for legal guardianship of his children Lincelia, George Louis, Mary, Charles, and Martha Schwalls due to an  inheritance of money or land worth $30 each from the estate of their mother, Lincelia Claxton Schwalls.  Said Guardianship was granted September 5, 1887.

Side Note:  It is funny that I ended up writing about George Schwalls tonight as I have recently made the acquaintance of a "new" cousin, and he is a wealth of information.  Some of that information is about the Schwalls.  He has done tons of research, and when I can, I am going to follow his findings and see if it is what I need to break down this brick wall once and for all!