I enjoy doing crosswords and genealogy
research so I decided to try my hand at combining the two. I started
with a free program on the internet, but could only include up to 49
clues. That didn't make a very good puzzle so I used the framework
and added onto it, with some help from my husband. It is not as
compact as most puzzles you find, but I did my best to make it
solvable. It was fun, but time consuming. I hope you find it
amusing.
Note: I'm a novice at creating puzzles
(this is my first one) and don't have a program to provide me with
obscure words to fill in the blank spaces. For this reason, I gave
myself permission to include two-letter answers, which are not
customary in standard crosswords. Let me also say that when you have
to add the numbers manually it is a royal pain in the neck. I used a
fair amount of white out in the first iteration before I came up with
an easy way to do it for the second.
I'll post the solution in about a week.
ACROSS
1) One of a pair in a household.
5) Abbr. in a date.
6) Classification of a crime we hope
none of our relatives committed.
10) Mason's tool.
12) Snow may pile up in this,
especially this winter.
13) Egyptian sun god.
14) A crop your ancestors may have
grown.
17) Color of many old photos.
18) Help.
19) Color or kind of wood.
22) One who delivers babies, in brief.
23) The first person enumerated in a
household is listed as this.
25) Implement used in the field,
generally pulled in the old days by a 15-down.
26) European height.
29) Family events may be recorded in
one of these books.
32) “Ready, ___, fire.”
33) If you have many paper records you
should do this so you won't lose them.
34) You may be eagerly awaiting the
next one of these for Downton Abbey.
36) You'll be asked to create one of
these when adding a marriage event.
38) Who else you should trace to find
out more about your ancestor.
42) Everyone on a flight meets them at
the airport.
43) Company head.
44) Defunct device to enhance a TV
signal.
45) You'll make at least one of these
during your wedding ceremony.
47) “I ___ You, Babe.”
48) One of these is rumored to have
nine lives.
49) Male deer.
50) A damp basement may grow this.
52) “You've got mail!” provider.
53) A milk alternative is made from
this.
54) Intro for -zoic, -lithic and
-america.
55) Watch out for this danger when
swimming at the beach.
61) Cleverness.
62) Fairy tale collector Andrew.
64) Vitamin bottle abbr.
66) TV manufacturer.
67) Sore.
68) When records almost magically fall
into our hands we call it this.
71) What happens if there is no
158-across.
73) Difficult to trace surname or
occupation.
76) A squeaky door may need one of
these.
77) You may see big rolls of this in
the field.
78) For general info. on recent deaths
you can't beat this free resource.
81) Census milestone year.
85) Some have this kind of sense of
humor.
87) If your morning quaff makes you
jittery, better switch to this.
88) Many a one of these moved because
of the Dust Bowl.
89) Mate for a 49-across.
90) Clotho, Lachesis or Atropos.
91) Look here to find information on
injured military men in your family.
97) Personal item genealogists would
love to have for every ancestor. A famous one was written by
52-down.
101) West. state.
104) Difficult to trace surname likely
derived from an occupation.
105) The Mormon church is known as
this, in brief.
106) Shampoo may be designed for this
hair type.
107) Sally Field movie, “Norma ___.”
108) It is easier to find a record if a
database has one of these.
111) Beware of the many unsourced ones
online.
113) Type of infection or video.
114) “Born in the ___.”
115) Virtually every American's
ancestors came here in one of these.
116) Morsel.
118) Spiced tea.
121) You'll find MDs here with at least
one 135-across.
123) If you are dehydrated at the
121-across you will likely receive one of these.
124) Where you might find a divorce
record.
129) Kind of old photo.
131) It's difficult to find for some
females.
134) Start of -itis and -algia.
135) This person works with MDs in the
121-across.
136) This invention transformed
transportation. See also 153-across.
137) Contend.
138) Many immigrants applied to become
this.
139) Get the scoop on your ancestors
here.
142) What every genealogist hits sooner
or later.
145) Mandela's homeland, abbr.
147) After the Civil War, soldiers may
have been members of one of these posts, abbr.
149) Frost wrote that a good one of
these makes good neighbors.
150) There's usually one of these
colorful characters in every family.
153) Alternate name for 136-across.
155) Important component of
genealogical time points.
158) You'll find heirs here.
161) What our families sometimes wish
we'd never discovered.
164) Import tax.
166) A Pope or zodiac sign.
167) A Federal Gov't. agency on whose
website you can locate original property titles.
168) Many an ancestor served in this
conflict.
169) Ger. manufacturer of a 136-across.
170) Exertion.
171) Kreskin's ___, game.
172) Sadly, most old family photographs
are in this state.
176) Someone not clearly related to
household members may be enumerated this way.
181) Phone provider or ISP.
183) Old Norse letter.
185) “Rub a ___, ___.”
186) Hobo.
187) Salty delicacy sometimes found in
sushi.
188) Some immigrants helped dig this
canal.
189) Court.
191) Slowly, in music.
193) State located between MO, OK and
MS.
194) Long ago.
195) ___ at Joe's.
196) Not curly or straight.
197) __B, the three additive primary
colors.
198) Detroit's county.
200) Storage spot or elephant part.
201) Opponent of 8-down in the
122-down.
DOWN
1) You may be able to narrow your city
search to one of these when looking in the 55-down.
2) Tyrant Amin.
3) Young newt.
4) Arena animal in Madrid.
7) Some people may call their
grandmother this.
8) He served for the CSA in the
122-down.
9) Shrub from which breast cancer
Taxol is made.
10) One way to date old photographs.
11) 20th century place you
might find a man's signature.
12) You may find your family in a city
or county one.
15) You can ride this or hitch it to a
25-across or 179-down.
16) Biblical pronoun.
17) A farmer may have this under the
nails.
19) He will inherit under
primogeniture.
20) You might drink this at home or in
a 141-down.
21) What you should do for pedestrians.
24) OTC painkiller that works well for
arthritis.
25) ___ Beta Kappa.
27) Cooke of podcasting.
28) Your ancestors may have landed
here.
29) You may find this in a county
history.
30) Are for one.
31) Kind of constrictor.
35) Start for hen, coat or brain.
37) Found in 139-across, this is a good
place to find details of someone's life.
38) Chicago to St. Louis direction.
39) This is a good form of cousin bait.
40) One of many official groups for
genealogists.
41) Tape may leave this behind.
46) Nighttime flier.
49) Feared Nazi paramilitary group.
50) Unmarried girls and women may be
addressed this way.
51) Female branch of the family.
52) Dutch writer Frank who penned a
famous 97-across.
56) What genealogists want for every
fact in their databases.
57) Titles are often written in this
type.
58) Discourage.
59) Winter month in Espana.
60) Rupture.
63) Probably one of the most commonly
cited records.
65) Gamblers' cubes.
69) Angry people may fly into these.
70) Clan.
72) Start of -nary, -lateral, and
-focal.
74) You can get bleary-eyed reading
this for too long.
75) Hasten.
77) Pres. Obama's birthplace.
78) Drunkard.
79) You may find one of these in the
closet.
80) Start for -urnal and -ameter.
82) Charged particle
83) How many it takes to tango.
84) A bit.
86) Scottish denial.
87) If you aren't handy you shouldn't
attempt this kind of home project, abbr.
92) Not feeling well.
93) “I am ___ a crook.”
94) Type of Christmas tree.
95) Elba to Pierre.
96) Alkaline substance used in
soap-making.
98) Jackie's second.
99) Uncommon.
100) You may find your schooled
ancestors here.
102) Carte de _____.
103) Free, volunteer-based internet
resource with links to every U.S. state.
109) United States military branch.
110) Affectionate term for the
Atlantic.
112) Archaic numerical term in the
Gettysburg address.
113) There are three basic types of
this.
117) New tech. way to examine your
heritage.
119) Dog to Wolfgang.
120) See 193-across.
122) Many an ancestor fought in this
conflict, including 8-down and 201-across.
125) Homophone of a near relative.
126) New in Nürnberg.
127) Mongrel.
128) Victorian or Edwardian, for
example.
130) Metallic element that gave it's
name to a coin, abbr.
132) Mid-American state.
133) What a genealogist needs after an
all-night research session.
140) Source citation guru.
141) Where you might drink 20-down.
142) Abbr. in a date.
143) Grant of “Arsenic and Old
Lace.”
144) TV show popularizing genealogy, in
brief.
146) Structure to keep track of
ancestors.
147) This can help you navigate roads
or state your genealogical case.
148) Fit for a king.
149) Principle of tracing unrelated
people when you have hit a 142-across.
151) One place to find a genealogist.
152) One place to find a genealogist.
154) To find out what your ancestors
grew on the 165-down, look on this special decennial sch. 1850-1900.
156) Per, abbr.
157) Smallest U.S. state.
159) Where cattle may roam.
160) Tennis shot.
162) Some people would like to trace
their lineage all the way back to this person.
163) Tool used in wood working or
leather work.
165) The majority of Americans lived on
one of these in the nineteenth century.
172) You'll want to know which one your
ancestor served in to learn specifics of what he did in the military.
173) Born.
174) Hard to trace surname or a color.
175) A good place to look for artifacts
that have been separated from the family.
176) Common nineteenth century mode of
transportation. Used with a 15-down.
177) Japanese sash.
178) When going from Chicago to LA you
can get your kicks on this.
179) Cart used for delivering loads,
sometimes of 18-down.
180) ___ a living.
182) Homophone of 83-down.
184) Russian mountain range.
185) Lineage society based on Rev. War
service.
190) Tall shader.
192) The 1900-1930 censuses ask
householders if they rent or this.
199) Probably the coldest U.S. state.
