Randy set out an interesting challenge for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. Use my genealogy software’s tree function to count the trees in my database. I have three separate databases. One is for my Dad’s side, one is my Mom’s Father’s side, and another is for my Mom’s Mother’s side (don’t ask…it made sense 10 years…
Category: About My Ancestors
That’s Old News: Who Names Their Son Benjamin Franklin?
That’s the question I had to answer. One of my distant cousins, Catherine McSweegan, daughter of Thomas McSweegan and Catherine Kelly, married a man named B.F. Baddeley. That “B.F.” drove me crazy. What did it stand for? I researched different records to see if I could uproot his first and middle name. I eventually found…
That’s Old News: Can National Events Affect A Marriage?
I’ve been doing alot of newspaper research later…I mean ALOT! I don’t think any type of research I’ve done in the last year or so has been as rewarding as searching newspapers online. The ability to find relatives through keyword searches opens up a whole world of stories beyond birth, death, and marriage records. I…
What Is the CMA Society?
You know I can’t leave any stone unturned. After find out from my Gr Gr Gr Grandfather’s death notice that he was a member of the CMA Society, I spent a considerable amount of time going through the 1877 San Francisco City Directory looking through the list of societies in hopes of finding one that…
First Lucky Break of the Year
I wanted to start off the new year with some family tree research. I had fooled around for awhile looking for a death notice for Catherine (Dolan) Kelly, but had no success. I came back after dinner and took up John Joseph Jones–a name with impossible to research written all over it. Through census and…