This week as part of my organizing and verifying genealogy document project I started on the McSwegan folder on my computer. I got several things input which was awesome. Then I hit a mystery. I found a child noted as nephew in the 1900 Census for Charles McSwegan. Very few people in this line were…
That’s Old News: Too Young To Serve
I came across this article in the Daily Alta Newspaper [San Francisco, CA], 22 August 1866, while searching for the McSwegan family (aka McSweegan). This was under the Fourth District Court, “Discharged”: Mary (Gallagher) McSwegan, a widow, was only in the U.S. about three years when this happened. From the information given, her oldest son,…
SNGF: Filling Downtime
Randy has his weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge posted at Genea-Musings. I don’t have my blog on Blogger so I wasn’t affected by the downtime. My blogs are hosted on my own web space at 1and1.com. That doesn’t mean I’ll never experience down time. Anything can happen out on the web. I’m not that…
Surname Saturday: de Melo’s of Achada
I have several different de Melo lines. This post will concentrate on the de Melo’s of Achada, Nordeste, Sao Miguel Island, Azores. This has been a tricky line for me. While I had my Great Great Grandmother’s name very early in my research, I was able to find very few documents to help fill in…
Happy Mother’s Day!
This photograph was taken in 1964 a few months after I was born. My oldest sister is 7 at the time. My Mom is 27 years old in this photo. She 5 kids in 7 years. It’s one of my favorites. We were visiting one of my parent’s friends. We were like a small army…