Author Archives: kgallagh
Tech Tuesday – To Share Or Not To Share
In researching your family tree, most people will come to a point where geographic location or a lack of digitized resources available online has your research at a standstill. To make a sweeping generalization, for the most part, our families rarely stayed in one place their whole lives and the chances that we, as family tree researchers, now live in those towns is slim. We live all over the world and do most of our research utilizing resources available online. The digitization [...]
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Tombstone Tuesday – Samuel S Van Blaricom
Samuel S. Van Blaricom was born in 1777 in Shrewsbury, New Jersey. He married Mary Ann Strawser in Pennsylvania and they went on to have at least nine children in the Shelby, Ohio area. He took part in the War of 1812 and eventually died in 1856 in Liberty, Indiana and he is buried at Reed Cemetery in Fulton. Share and Enjoy Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg Google Buzz StumbleUpon Add to favorites [...]
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Matrilineal Monday – Catherine E Costello
Today’s featured women from my family tree is my great-grandmother, Catherine “Kate” E Costello. She died long before my father was even born, so I obviously never even met her. However, her story makes me believe that she was someone who I would have enjoyed knowing. Share and Enjoy Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg Google Buzz StumbleUpon Add to favorites Email RSS
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Maritime Monday – Castle Garden
Over the holidays, my husband I took a trip to New York City on vacation. We saw so many things while we were there but the one thing I was most excited to see was Castle Garden. All of my ancestors came through there and yet I know nothing about it. All you ever hear about is Ellis Island but between 1855 and 1892, over eight million people immigrated through Castle Garden. Share and Enjoy Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg Google [...]
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Cousin Relationships
One of the things that I found most difficult to understand when I first started doing family history research is the relationships of cousins. I remember finding a long-lost cousin who informed me that we are second cousins; once removed. That’s great! Now what does that mean? Share and Enjoy Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg Google Buzz StumbleUpon Add to favorites Email RSS
