DNA

Even the Snails Came from Spain

The legend among the Irish for the longest time was that they "came from Spain." You could say it was the mother of all family stories.

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A Positive View of Our Hamilton DNA Research

In the last two articles, I looked at the shortcomings of the DNA research into our Hamilton line. In this article, I will take a look at the positive side. What have we gained?

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First Thoughts on the O'Rourke Autosomal DNA

My sister recently tested the autosomal DNA of a cousin on our mother's side. A person inherits autosomal DNA from both their mother and father, unlike y-DNA which comes only from their father.

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general

Found on Roadside

While looking through the Irish Catholic parish registers, I found this entry ...

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Spiders and Clean Windows

Do spiders have a "thing" for clean windows? Do they lie in wait for you to wash the glass before they come out in the spring? Or is it just coincidence, timingboth spiders and window cleaning being part of the rites of spring?

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Hellier Family of Bangor, Maine

I had the opportunity to look at two old Bibles which apparently once belonged to members of the Hellier family of Bangor, Maine. They are in a private collection and are not for sale. I am presenting the family record information here for the benefit of anyone concerned.

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postal covers

John Parent of Onondaga, New York

A brief discussion of the family of John Parent of Onondaga, New York

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George Allabaugh of Crawford Township, Coshocton County, Ohio

Tracing back the ancestry of George Allabaugh of Coshocton County, Ohio.

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John Dial of Crawford Township, Coschocton County, Ohio

Some notes about John Dial of Crawford Township, Coschocton County, Ohio

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records

James and Thomas Cunningham, Ballygowan Townland

Some records for James and Thomas Cunningham of Ballygowan Townland, Kilkeel, County Down, Ireland

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Rourkes of Ballintur--1793 to 1901

In this, as it turns out rather long, article, we are going to start in 1901 and walk ourselves back through the Ballintur records, looking only at the Rourke families, trying to trace each family back as far as we can.

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Michael McAneny of Cleveland: naturalization

Having found James McAneny's death record, I was inspired to keep going on the family. Here is his brother Michael's naturalization card. As far as I can tell, this was some kind of summary of information made after the fact, along with the immigrant's current address.

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sketches

Rose Sloan and Richard Farrell, Killowen to Cleveland

Rose Sloan and Richard Farrell were marrried in Rostrevor in 1896 and soon left for Cleveland. Can we learn any more about them?

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Robert Carroll (Dudley Anderson), Actor, of Chicago, Illinois

In the last article, we learned that William Dudley Anderson had a stage name of Bobby Carroll and died in Chicago in 1932. Can we fill in anything else in his life between his marriage to Mary Rodgers in 1887 and his own death?

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Mary (Rodgers) Kelly Anderson, of Cleveland, Ohio

When I started working on Edward and Anna Rodgers' daughter Mary, she was mostly just legend. It went: "She was married to a Patrick Kelly and a Dudley Anderson. She was on stage. We had a picture of her with Lillian Russell." Well I haven't found any picture at all of her, but there is enough information to fill out the rest of the story.

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tech-stuff

Accessibility

I am making some changes to the website to improve its accessibility for the blind and those with difficulty seeing.

I'm currently making changes to the individual articles. Most of the problems seem to be with appropriate alternate text and with the inline footnotes. This will take some time. If …

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Adding an emoji to a post

Today I learned, well not exactly today, more like yesterday. Anyway, I figured out how to put emojis on the website.

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Living with Sid

Sid is the unstable branch of the Debian GNU-Linux operating system. He's usually easy enough to get along with, if you keep your distance and give him the respect he demands.

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