An ongoing journal of genealogical and family discovery.
A parent category for various bloodlines that I’m researching.
Agnes Keating KEATING, Agnes M.A., formerly of Detroit, Mich., passed away December 23, 2007. She gave many years of decided service to Sacred Heart Catholic Church, where she was a member of the women’ s guild. A memorial Mass will Read More …
KEATING JR , Thomas P. On May 18, 2007, THOMAS PATRICK KEATING, Jr., beloved husband of the late Catharine White Keating and devoted father of Kathleen K. Garrett, Mary Louise Merida, Nancy Reilly Keating, Elizabeth Ann Carter and T. Patrick Read More …
IDAHO FALLS, ID — John Francis Keating, 72, of Idaho Falls, died June 16, 2007, at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. He was born August 24, 1934, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Francis J. Keating and Margaret McGervey Keating. He Read More …
Thomas P. Keating Lonaconing, January 4 – Thomas Patrick Keating, 78, died Monday at his home on St. Mary’s Terrace, after an illness of several months. Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Keating, he was born in Scotland, Read More …
When browsing older newspapers for the history of your family, you may come across an interesting piece of genealogical data. However, the wise genealogist is advised to look a few days further for the inevitable correction. I ran across the Read More …
I’ve spent the evening scanning family photographs in a small photo album lent to me by Aunt Patty. Most are of her immediate family as young adults, some with my cousins (as infants and toddlers) as well. I still need Read More …
Several years ago, I started sending a monthly newsletter to my extended family. Each month’s issue would contain that month’s birthdays and anniversaries, and occasionally other bits of family news and trivia. After about a year of these, I got Read More …
On an older incarnation of the site, Ray Keating wrote: G’day All, I am interested in finding the link back to Ireland for my particular branch of the Keating family but I have been basically stopped at Redmond Keating who Read More …
KEATING, Rene W. On September 23, 2007, RENE W. KEATING; loving wife of Anthony L. Keating; devoted mother of Andrew L. Keating and his wife Jennifer M. and Peter J. Keating and his wife Cristina A.; beloved sister of William Read More …
I’ve updated the family genealogy at http://www.KeatingSearch.com/MyGenealogy/. This is the first version using the new version of John Cardinal’s Second Site. I’ve changed the style a bit, and might make more changes as I play with new features. I’ve also 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.
While I’m on the subject of Migans and Old Holy Family, here are the pictures of the gravestones of some Migan family members buried at Old Holy Family Cemetery in Baltimore County.
In addition to the Death Records that Pam acquired from Holy Family, she was also able to obtain the following baptismal records (slightly redacted to remove one individual who is still amongst the living…).
Pam, researching the family of Leo Migan, has been in touch with Holy Family Church in Randallstown. They provided her with the following information from their Death Register book…
A bit more information on Leo and John’s cruise…
Found the following snake oil advertisement while browsing the Library of Congress’s records. Keating’s Balsam of Horehound. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2001701417/>. (Edited on 24 July 2020 to resolve missing image, add citation, and update formatting.)
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 occasionally been in communication with the daughter-in-law of one of Great-Uncle Leo’s wives. Unfortunately, no one in my immediate family knows much about Uncle Leo’s two families, so she and I have been trying to puzzle his history out 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.
MARGUERITE E KEATING 20021011 MARGUERITE E KEATING FROSTBURG — Marguerite E. Keating, 85, of 11 W. Main St., Frostburg, died Thursday, Oct. 10, 2002, at Sacred Heart Hospital. Born Sept. 29, 1917, in Frostburg, she was the daughter of the Read More …