Saturday Night Genealogy Fun on Sunday

From Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings :

Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music):

1) Dana Leeds on the Enthusiastic Genealogist blog asks "Did/Do Your Children Know Any of Their Great-Grandparents?"

2) I thought that would be a great Saturday Night Genealogy Fun question - so please share your response with us in a blog post of your own, in a comment on this blog post, or in a Facebook or Google+ post.

3) For extra credit, or in case the answer is "No," then please answer the question for yourself, or your parents.

Luckily for my son, Hunter, he knows 5 of his great grandparents! My mother's parents, my father's dad and step mom and my dad's mom. He is very close with his great grandfathers and his grandfather; he spends a lot of time hunting with them. (I hope he knows how lucky he is!!)

My maternal grandparents with their great grandchildren!
(Hunter is in the back)

I was also lucky enough to know my great grandparents. I knew my maternal paternal great grandmother, my paternal paternal great grandparents and my paternal step maternal great grandmother. My paternal paternal great grandparents lived out the road from house until Grandpa died in 1995. When I was in elementary school I would go to their house after school and most nights we ate dinner with them. My sister and I would go to church with them on Sunday's and out for lunch after church. They were wonderful people!!

Harold Elwood Seigfreid. My paternal paternal great grandfather.

Hazel Killian Seigfreid. My paternal paternal great grandmother.

I miss my great grandparents more all the time! I am very grateful that I was able to know them!

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