Monday, March 14, 2016

I'm so excited!

Just short and quick but I wanted to mark the day that I found my 3rd greatgrandmother's baptism in the Irish Parish records!!

So I now know where that side of my family came from in Ireland!!

I'm at work so I can't post a picture yet, but I know she was baptised on 1Aug 1848 in Killeagh, Cork, Ireland, parents Patrick Higgins and Catherine Fitzgerald Higgins.

I gots goosebumps!!
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Thursday, February 4, 2016

President Millard Fillmore - Welcome To The Family!

I know, I know, nothing for months and then 2 posts in one day. I had forgotten that I was working on the other post until I went to do this one. Short and sweet today, I've got to get ready for work.

 Millard Fillmore

 My research shows that Millard is my 2nd cousin 6x removed!
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This post was originally an email I sent to my family back in October. Still think it's neat so decided to turn it into a blog post.

First of all I want to compliment my brother Gar on his picture taking and careful notations when they went down for Aunt Dorothy’s interment.
I was looking at the photos again [reason will be explained in a minute] and he did a great job. The pictures are great and to be honest, I wish he would embellish his notes from that trip and turn it into more of a journal. I know journals can be hard, but might be easier if he just tells a ‘story’ about each of the pictures. If you have windows 10 I’m pretty sure it comes with voice recognition software. you wouldn’t even have to type anything. Really you should think about this.............this would be a great little nugget for future generations......even the boys, who were so young the probably don’t remember any of it.
Ok, off my soap box and the reason for this email. The German Genealogy Group that I belong to in Brooklyn was doing a cemetery crawl to St. John’s a few weeks ago. [Yes, Mom, what we do when we go on our trips is apparently called cemetery crawling!] Anyway, I knew that there wasn’t any way that I could go, but I emailed the organizer and asked if she would take a few pictures of the ‘Roth’ stone if it was convenient. She had no problem with this and she sent me the pics last night. After looking at them I realized that you had probably taken some pics on your trip so I went back and found them. Look at the difference?!?

2006 trip pics

Pics Joanne just took for me




Ok, so my question now is, did they clean up the area because you asked them to, or did they decide to clean it up because they had to for Dorothy’s interment, or did they clean it up because they now know that there is family who cares?
Just thought this was kinda cool – gotta hop in the shower!

PS - My mother told me that they paid to have the area cleaned up. Nice to know that the cemetery did what they said they would do!




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Sunday, January 31, 2016

George Joseph? George John?

Sitting here trying to get organized for my big trip to Salt Lake City and of course I get side-tracked. Such is the nature of genealogy and I've learned to just go with the flow...................

 The flow this morning led me to quite a find, albeit a confusing one. I found my great grandfather's WWII Draft Registration Card.

Hey, wait a minute! I thought his middle name was Joseph!! So back I go through all of the documentation I have on him only to notice that this is the only document I've found that states his middle name. So where the heck did I get Joseph from?? And to make matters worse, he's a Sr, so that means I have my grandfather's middle name wrong also? Sheesh........................

 On the positive side though I now know where they were living in 1942.
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