I decided to put in some time on my Dolan’s this weekend since I’m all juiced up to solve their mystery. When I started, I knew that Catherine Dolan married Martin Kelly ca 1840. Little did I know that Dolan families would work their way into the tree over multiple generations. As I was going…
Category: California Genealogy
Getting My Irish Ancestors Back to Ireland
I am completely stuck on my Irish lines. I’ve got them back to the late 1840s in New Hampshire, but can’t make the leap. I know they were from County Roscommon, but that’s it. There are a few problems holding up my research. First, Martin and Catherine (Dolan) Kelly moved the family out to San…
Letting Time Pass
Genealogy Research Journal #5, Entry #7 I didn’t really know where to research next. I needed to see the newspaper obituary for Margaret to see if she had any siblings alive at the time of her death. Waiting for the 1889 Index The impatient genealogist that I am, I kept checking the Call Monitor index….
Calling on the Archdiocese
Genealogy Research Journal #6, Entry #6 I knew that the city of San Francisco would not have a copy of the marriage record as they were destroyed in 1906. I also knew that the state of California did not begin recording vital records until after 1905. I didn’t know what church they were married at…
The Beauty of Newspaper Indexes in Resolving the San Francisco Records Gap
Genealogy Research Journal #4, Entry #5 With death date in hand, I was ready to search for my great great grandmother. I still knew very little about her. I needed to figure out what sources would replace the death documents that were destroyed in 1906. Newspaper Indexes Help the San Francisco Records Gap By chance,…