A grand day out at Coney Island, but who is with them?

Continuing with the #52ancestors prompts, this week's topic is "favorite photo." It's not that easy to pick a favorite. I have a few that I like from my childhood, but to answer the prompt, I'm going to show a photo that I hadn't seen until I visited family last March. This photograph brings up a few questions for me that I'm trying to answer.

I wonder what happened?

I had a little extra time this week in between other tasks, so I decided to try some new searches on the recently upgraded FamilySearch website.  I found a few items that with scans of original documents that directly answered a few questions, but I also found one that had a bit of a surprise…

Transcription errors are fickle beasts

Ancestry.com has opened up marriage records for free access this week through Sunday.  I was able to carve out a little bit of time today to see what I could find in a quick search on a couple of the lines I’m researching, and found some interesting results…

SNGF (but on Sunday) - Ahnentafel Roulette

So the rules are that I'm supposed to take my father's age, divide it by four, and then find the person listed as that number on my ahnentafel report and write at least three facts that I know about him/her.  For me, this leads to a woman who I need to research further, my 2nd great grandmother Katie Lamb.