Tag Archives: genealogy

Ellen (O’Connor) Arnold

Posted on 22 June 2012 by matthannan

Cousin Robert Barry from Rathcormac, County Cork, just sent me some interesting details he’s recently turned up on a common ancestor.

Ellen (nee O’Connor) Arnold was married to Bartholomew Arnold. It appears that he did not survive The Famine. On the Griffith’s Valuation (basically, a tax census) for 1852, we find multiple entries for Ellen!… Read the rest

Posted in Genealogy, Irish | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

1940 Census

Posted on 4 April 2012 by matthannan

Been playing around with the 1940 Census for, well, most of the day today. It is not indexed by name yet, which makes it harder than hell to find anything in. First you need a rough idea of where in the city or town that your ancestor lived at the time.… Read the rest

Posted in Genealogy | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Grooking around cemeteries

Posted on 11 April 2011 by matthannan

This is the single stone that I wanted to find yesterday. It just so happens to be right up the street from the house. I was expecting just Elmer C. Lee, Jenny’s great uncle.

As you can see, it lists not only old Elmer, but his wife (who I had no record of), his mother (which was a shocker to both Jenny and I) and gives us the location of the mysterious John E.… Read the rest

Posted in Genealogy | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

Other folk’s family trees

Posted on 16 March 2011 by matthannan

The woman that I am bonded with has a half-brother.
He’s a hell of a nice guy, but he is a bit sad.
He doesn’t really get on all that well with my partner’s side of the family and his mother up and left him when he was very young.… Read the rest

Posted in Genealogy | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

John & Liz Flynn

Posted on 31 December 2010 by matthannan

Sure. Sure. It sounds like I know them. Well, after spending a week with them, I kind of do! Too bad they have been dead for about a hundred years! They were my 2nd great grandparents. And, until this week, they were as far back on the Flynn-side of the house as we knew.… Read the rest

Posted in Genealogy, Irish | Tagged , , | 12 Comments