Category Archives: 2008 Genea Bloggers Summer Games Competition

Genea-Blogger’s Blog Networks on Facebook

I have marked off another item completed on my Genea-Blogger Group Games challenge. I have signed up for five genealogy blogger networks on Facebook. I only needed to do one, but  were several that piqued my interest. I have been a fan of a couple of these blogs for years and it was nice to …

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Genea Blogger Games Weekend

Representing the United States, the Kingdom of Hawaii, France, the Azores, Portugal, England, Ireland, Australia, and a bunch of other places is…ME! Here’s the flag I needed to create to compete in the games. Unfortunately, you could only have 3 countries. You probably wouldn’t see a picture if I had tried to fit all those …

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My Great Great Grandmother, Margaret (Kelly) Jones

Margaret Kelly was born in November of 1849 in Manchester, NH. Margaret was the oldest child of Martin Kelly and Catherine Dolan, natives of Co. Roscommon, Ireland. Her parents moved the family to Boston, MA around 1851. They only stayed there a couple of years. By 1854, the family had moved across the country and …

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