November 2010 Blog Posts (30)

Looking for

(a) Helena Cahalane b 1888 in Cloonkeen, went to Boston 1910, may have returned to Cork 1913 and otherwise missing. Her parents were John and Helena.

(b) Mary Cahalane b 1856, married Patrick Donoghue/O'Donoghue in 1877, 3 children know Margaret, Michael & John born between 1878 and 1887 no further contact.

Any help appreciated. Laim Keilthy

21 February 1873, Cape Ann Advertiser "On Friday afternoon, as one of the workmen in the shipyard of A. O. Burnham was hoisting the bow hasping, it got the best of him and fell striking Mr. Gilman P. Allen (about 63 years old) a glancing blow on the shoulder and head, and knocking him down. Fortunately no bones were broken, but it was a…

What started as an hobby sparked by a cousin of mine, I soon realised

1) How enthusiastic some people were to document their relatives

2) How shallow is some peoples' knowledge of their relations ...does not go beyond father / first cousin

3) How valuable is the contribution by the elderly which otherwise would be lost for posterity

It gave me immense pleasure, when relatives started appreciating the efforts when the tree as it grew…

I've recently had my dna tested with "FamilyTreeDNA" on the web. I'm fairly new to dna research and am slowly attempting to understand it all. I have numerous matches and have made contact with several of my matches to get a better understanding of how we connect. As time goes on and the price of these tests come down I think that more and more genealogist will use this new technology.

Growing up and living in the United States, I had never heard of Ted Grant or been exposed to his photojournalism, so I was not really sure who this keynote speaker was at the Association of Personal Historians 2010 Conference in Victoria BC earlier this month. For some reason, his name kept conjuring up the news anchor on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. ( Then I found out I had been confusing the editor, Lou Grant and the anchor Ted Knight and created my own…

Obituaries (on file at the Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem)

May 20,…

Back on September 12, 2006, I scanned my first World War II Food Ration Book, and today, the ten thousandth book hit the bed of my scanner! http://bit.ly/9VSQTL

I recently returned from the 2010 Association of Personal Historians Conference held in Victoria, British Columbia. The theme of this conference was “Voices of the Elders” and was named as such to “honor the First Nations, the first peoples of Canada, on whose traditional territory we met, as well as the elders of all nations, whose stories we help preserve.”…

I was just reading about a woman whose computer was acting up so she called a computer technician out to her home to save her from the dread ‘blue screen.’ Apparently she had 10 years worth of genealogy research stored on her computer and NO BACKUPS! Just thinking about that makes me shudder.

If you’ve ever lived through a hard-drive crash, you know it is one of the scariest and most humbling experiences. We tend to relate to our computers as…