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…
Tag: Newspaper Research
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…
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….
Seraphim’s Descendants…Where Are You?
Genealogy Journal #1, Entry #4 As proof of Seraphim de Braga’s existence unfolded, there was still so much I didn’t know about him. And, it really bugged me! The only way to find out more would be to track down his descendants. I had already collected some information from the census. But, with that I…