Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Most interesting Ancestor

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Here are the details for tonight's assignment:

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

1)  This SNGF is based on the 100 Word Challenge (http://100wc.net/) that school children are participating in around the world.  They are given a word or phrase to write a story about in one hundred words.

1)  Write a short 100 word story using the phrase ",,,the most interesting ancestor I have..." in 100 words.  [Hint:  If you write it in a word processor, you can use Tools > Word Count (or similar) to count words]

2)  Share the story with all of us by writing your own blog post, writing a comment on this blog post, or put it in a Google Plus Stream or Facebook Status or Note.  Please leave a comment on this post so others can find it.

Here's my entry for the week.

My most interesting ancestor is my 5^th Great Grandfather.  Christian Hostetler was born 13 February 1746 in Upper Bern, Pennsylvania.  He was the youngest son of Jacob Hostetler and Anna Lorentz who were Swiss Germany immigrants.  Christian was taken captive by Delaware Indians during a raid on the families Northkill Amish Homestead on September 19^th 1757.  Christian was held by the Indians for seven years.  After his return from captivity he married an orphan girl, Barbara Rupp , in 1769.  Christian and Barbara had seven children. I descend from his oldest son Abraham.  Christian Hostetler died in 1814 in Ohio.

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Genealogy Fun

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

1)  What day of the week was your Father born? Tell us how you found out.

2) What has happened in recorded history on your Father's birth date (day and month)? Tell us how you found out, and list five events.

3)  What famous people have been born on your Father's birth date?  Tell us how you found out, and list five of them.

4)  Put your responses in your own blog post, in a comment on this blog post at Genea-Musings, or in a status or comment on Facebook.

Here's mine.........

1) My Dad, Theodore Stanley Green was born on Friday August 6th, 1943.  www.dayoftheweek.org

2) Here is what happened on this day throughout history: www.worldhistoryproject.org

1623-Pope Urban VIII is elected

1777-Battle of Oriskany -- bloodiest battle of the American Revolution

1832-Lincoln becomes Postmater of New Salem--appointed by President Andrew Jackson

1862-Battle of Kirksville -- American Civil War

1890 Cy Young pitches first Professional game

1914-Serbia declares war on Germany, Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia

1926-Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle swims the English Channel

1935-Cryogenics is a sucess when a monkey "Jekal" is frozen and brought back to life by Dr. Ralph Willard

1945-Hiroshima

1965-Beatles release "Help" album

1978-Pope Paul VI dies

1991 World Wide Web becomes publicly available on the internet

2004-Rick James dies

2012-Curiousity Rover lands on Mars

3)The famous people born on this day in history are: www.historyorb.com

1697-Charles VII The HOly Roman Emperor

1911-Lucille Ball

1917-Robert Mitchum

1928-Andy Warhol