Representing the United States, the Kingdom of Hawaii, France, the Azores, Portugal, England, Ireland, Australia, and a bunch of other places is…ME! 🙂 I didn’t really get to do much for the competition this weekend. I took care of my brother’s 3 dogs. One of them ate a bar of a soap and was ill…
Category: About My Ancestors
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…
What the Research Journal Blog is About
As part of the Genea Blogger Games, one of my tasks is to tell you what the Research Journal Blog is about. As I remodeled and refocused the blog recently, it seems like this is a good opportunity. Originally, this blog was set up to take research projects and follow them step by step to…
I’m participating in the Genea-Blogger Games
As of today, I am an official participant in the 2008 Genea Blogger Group Games. I will be competing in all five categories, but my goal is not to complete every task in every categories. I would like to do my best and make a good showing, a bit better than the Eddie the Eagle…
Little Ol’ Grandma
I have a few photographs of my Grandma Lassalle as a young woman. It is difficult for me to reconcile the fashionable young woman in those early 1900 photographs with the old woman I knew as my Grandma. As I remember her, she was VERY old. (She was barely 70 in my earliest recollections!) She…