I often hear people lament that things were better in the olden days. Or, that somehow people have changed. We’re meaner and less civil, right? We commit way more crimes and we’ll pull out a gun over anything. Right? As I’ve been doing alot of newspaper research over the last year or two, I’ve learned…
Tag: San Francisco Chronicle
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…
Newspaper Clipping File: McSwegan
One of the families I know very little about is the McSwegan’s. My Gr Gr Gr Aunt, Catharine Kelly, married Thomas McSwegan sometime in the 1870s. They’re children were Hugh, Nellie, Joseph, Catherine, Alice, Arthur, and Ellen. The family lived in various areas of San Francisco. I know that Catharine lived with several of her…