An ongoing journal of genealogical and family discovery.
I’ve started going through a backlog of news articles (obituaries, births, marriages, etc.). I’ll try to keep it to a few articles a day to keep from overwhelming. (And also because I’m adding them a few at a time between Read More …
In their own words, the Guild of One-Name Studies (GOONS, as they are affectionately called) is “the worldwide centre of excellence in one-name studies and promotes the interests of both the individuals and groups who are engaged in them.” So, what’s a “one-name study”? According to their site, “a one-name study (ONS) is a project researching all occurrences of a surname, as opposed to a particular pedigree (ancestors of one person) or descendancy (descendants of one person or couple).” Read More …
Way back in January of 2008, I started an experiment on KeatingSearch.com by showing Google Ads. At the time, I hoped that it would cover the costs of the web site and maybe even cover some other genealogy costs (such Read More …
A bit of a ramble here… Mostly just thinking at my keyboard… For years, I used The Master Genealogist from Wholly Genes as my primary genealogy database and data entry software. When they closed up shop back in 2014, I Read More …
As a Christmas gift, my wife bought me both an updated subscription to Ancestry.com as well as an AncestryDNA kit. This has prompted me to renew my interest in genealogy, and as a pleasant side-effect, do some long-needed maintenance to Read More …
Item the First – Website Hacked (and Cleaned) At some point over the last six months, all of my web pages at DreamHost were hacked by an unknown attacker. As near as I can tell, the hack redirected visitors to Read More …
Made some changes to the site tonight. Biggest is a new, wider, theme. I wanted a simpler theme that would display more information to the user when they hit the front page of the site. The wider theme will make Read More …
I’ve been a bit lax keeping the site up this past year. For that, my apologies. Keeping up with the demands and rewards of my own small family (as well as work, exercise (I’ve lost 20 pounds!), etc.) has left Read More …
I’ve been busy transcribing a long treatise on the life and family of John Keating†of Philadelphia, a “Wild Goose” whose family left Ireland after the failed Jacobite / Williamite War and settled in France. He proceeded to serve in Read More …
I’ve created a Twitter account for KeatingSearch. Follow us at http://www.twitter.com/KeatingSearch. As of yet, I don’t know how I’ll use it. One thought is to summarize articles posted here. Any ideas?
I don’t usually plug charities on these pages, but since I am risking hypothermia and frost—bite for this, I decided to post it. In a few weeks, I’ll again be doing the Maryland State Police Polar Bear Plunge! This year, it will be Read More …
I haven’t been posting new articles recently. The reasons for this are multi—fold… I’ve dropped my Ancestry.com subscription. While a wonderful resource, it is definitely a costly one, and the drip of ad revenue from the sponsoring ads weren’t enough Read More …
I’ve modified the list of tags that shows up within each story to reflect the number of stories containing each tag. This is useful when you are trying to find related stories. For example, a story on my family might Read More …
I’m about to do a software upgrade on the WordPress journal software. Strange things may occur before, during, and after. I’ll try to clear up any problems as soon as possible.
Over the last few days, I’ve modified the site to use Google Search as the its search engine. The biggest changes you will see are: Search now searches the complete site, not just this WordPress “blog”. This means that anything Read More …
Just a heads—up. I’m playing around with the theme a little bit. It may look funny until I’m done. John
I’m upgrading the software that runs this site to the latest and greatest version of WordPress. If things seem a bit wonky for the next day or two, this is the reason. I expect I’ll have to adjust the theme Read More …
If you’ve reached this page, expecting the “Great Keating Search”, you’ve already found it. “Simplify” is the new watchword here at KeatingSearch.com, and I’m moving to simplify the whole website, both for you and for me. Some of the changes Read More …