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,…
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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…
Tombstones Can Have Errors, Too: Part One
Recently, a volunteer at Findagrave.com sent my photographs of my Kelly family tombstone at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, CA. Not only was my Great Great Grandmother’s name on the stone, but a couple of her sons. I was disappointed to find that Michael Kelly was not the Michael Kelly that I had been tracking…