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Showing posts with label church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label church. Show all posts
Monday, January 17, 2022

Amanuensis Monday: Seventh Avenue Chapel, New York City

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66 West 46 th   St N.Y. Oct 6, 1882 Ulyses S Stitt Clerk My Dear Sir On Friday Evening Sept 29 th  there were received into the membership o...
Saturday, September 22, 2018

Tracking Campbell through Catholic Church Records

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Margaret Campbell and Patrick Joyce (1834-1905) were my great great great grandparents. Patrick's death certificate lists his fathe...

Marriage Record Connecting a Person to a Place

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Bridget Sheehy (1857-1916) was my great great grandmother. With John D Preston (1857-1928) she had at least ten children born in New Yo...
Monday, July 9, 2018

Amanuensis Monday: Watson at Saint John's Episcopal Church in Jersey City

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“Everdue” Marble Dale Com. June – 8 – 1932 Not Entered in Books My dear Mr. Carnie: I am sending you the correct data in c...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

The Baptism of Bridget Sheehy in 1857 in Limerick, Ireland

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Someone from Ireland (possibly a cousin) wrote to me about my Sheehy and Frawley ancestors of County Limerick. He had seen my blog post abo...
Monday, October 9, 2017

Another Piece of the Puzzle in Chicago: A Lutter Marriage

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The marriage record arrived for Charles Lutter, the possible brother of my great great grandfather , Herman Lutter.  This record is from the...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

Chasing Irish Hometowns

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Spoiler alert:  Irish hometowns not discovered (yet). I am trying to discover where in Ireland Patrick Joyce (1830-1905) and Margaret Cam...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Irish Catholic Records: ODonnell and Gallagher in Donegal

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If you have not heard , you can now access digital images of Catholic records on the website of the National Library of Ireland . A lot o...
Monday, December 29, 2014

A More Precise Irish Hometown?

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I found a website detailing the history of a school in Meentinadea, County Donegal, Ireland. I was directed to the page by searching for a...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Combing through Details

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While looking for the ancestors of Ezra A. Dunn (1821-1898) , I found a few people who worked at his pottery business.  Of special note was ...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

Common and Uncommon Surnames

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Searching for a Johnson ancestor is not easy, so I turned to Winterton, the related and less popular surname.  I found an older will from 1...