I decided to put in some time on my Dolan’s this weekend since I’m all juiced up to solve their mystery. When I started, I knew that Catherine Dolan married Martin Kelly ca 1840. Little did I know that Dolan families would work their way into the tree over multiple generations. As I was going…
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Getting My Irish Ancestors Back to Ireland
I am completely stuck on my Irish lines. I’ve got them back to the late 1840s in New Hampshire, but can’t make the leap. I know they were from County Roscommon, but that’s it. There are a few problems holding up my research. First, Martin and Catherine (Dolan) Kelly moved the family out to San…
Little Ol’ Grandma
I have a few photographs of my Grandma Lassalle as a young woman. It is difficult for me to reconcile the fashionable young woman in those early 1900 photographs with the old woman I knew as my Grandma. As I remember her, she was VERY old. (She was barely 70 in my earliest recollections!) She…