An ongoing journal of genealogical and family discovery.
Mysteries and roadblocks that I face in my genealogical studies.
I’ve been combing through Pittsburgh newspapers attempting to find more information on my great-great-granduncle, Simon Keating and his wife. While I don’t know if the man in these articles is my Simon, it is still an interesting story. I wonder Read More …
While transcribing John Percy Keating’s “John Keating and his Forbears”, one line jumped out at me: […] for when certain members of the Keating family were driven by the religious persecution of that day [the time of Queen Elizabeth] to Read More …
Although not my own family, this story from the LA Times is an interesting outline of the author’s discovery of his family’s genealogical and racial history. In search of the meaning of ‘Mozingo’ (Part 1): http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mozingo-first-20100516,0,419830,full.story An old diary throws Read More …
Mrs. Keating Funeral Tomorrow The funeral of Mrs. Annie K. (Cronin) Keating, wife of Thomas P. Keating, who died at Miami, Florida, March 16, will be held from the home of her sister, Mrs. Michael O’Neill, 33 Cottage street, tomorrow Read More …
Genealogy is a wonderful hobby, but it often devolves to names and dates, particularly in generations long past. The obsessive-compulsive amongst my fellow genealogists (Teri would include me) find this fascinating, but can bore or even turn off those who Read More …
The following picture was taken of my great-aunt, Maude Genevieve (Pope) Miller, probably in the early 1920’s. There are two other young ladies in the picture who I’d like to identify.
My Aunt sent me a picture of (from left to right, my great-uncle Vernon T. Migan, my great-great-grandmother, Mary Gertrude (Greenwalt) Migan, and my great-great-grandfather, John Thomas Migan. However, I’m not sure exactly when and where the image was taken. Read More …
I’ve long believed that the parents of my great-grandfather, John Thomas Migan, were John J. Migan and Catherine Kelly. However, I’ve lately come upon a source that throws some question on John Thomas’s parentage.