Category Archives: Irish Genealogy
Footnote Friday: Navigating the Indexes
I’ve learned something about the Footnote.com search function. It’s not very helpful. I either get way too many results or I don’t get what I’m targetting. One of the ways to get around way too many results is to use the browse function. Click on Original Documents. Click on the database you want to search. …
Religious Newspaper Comes to the Rescue
I knew that the city of San Francisco did not have a copy of the marriage record for my Great Great Grandparents, Thomas A. Jones and Margaret Kelly because the records 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 …
Newspapers Provide Proof When Disasters Destroy Records
MARRIED JONES–KELLY–In this city, February 7, by the Rev. Father Scanlon, Thomas A. Jones to Miss Margaret Kelly, both of this city. [San Francisco Call, San Francisco, CA, 9 Feb 1869, page 3] It doesn’t look like much, does it? A groom, a bride, a priest, and a date. To the untrained eye, it’s just …