An ongoing journal of genealogical and family discovery.
A recent new member to the FTDNA Keating Project signed up for the Y-700 test and the updated results arrived this week. Since the preliminary (STR-based) results were a near match to my own, we were both quite interested in Read More …
This article’s subject is almost pure speculation, based on a dollop of data that we currently have and a single historical mention. Much more testing and additional historical documentation need to be added before it can more from a simple Read More …
Emigration Thu, May 1, 1851 – 1 · The Freeman’s Journal (Dublin, Dublin, Ireland) · Newspapers.com EMIGRATION. The rage for emigration knows no limits. The people are leaving the land in myriads. From Tipperary the emigration continues to an unexampled Read More …
I think I’ve discovered my family’s new motto. Read More …
Michael Keating and Des Steel have, at the request of the late John Keating, published his magnum opus on the history of the Keating family, Ever Most Faithful: The Early Keatings.
While transcribing John Percy Keating’s “John Keating and his Forbears”, one line jumped out at me: […] for when certain members of the Keating family were driven by the religious persecution of that day [the time of Queen Elizabeth] to Read More …
Although not my own family, this story from the LA Times is an interesting outline of the author’s discovery of his family’s genealogical and racial history. In search of the meaning of ‘Mozingo’ (Part 1): http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mozingo-first-20100516,0,419830,full.story An old diary throws Read More …
Note: Despite the similarites in names and geography, I know of no relationship to John Keating. However, having said that, I would love to find a familial link to this distinguished family. At the bottom of this article, I’ve included Read More …
My cousin’s family recently visited Ireland and snapped some pictures of Baldwinstown Castle, a historical home of the Keating family. Â Robert Keating has some additional photos of his visit to Ireland back in 1995, as well as additional history, Read More …
The Very Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Keating the Herodotus of Ireland, the foremost and ablest in the sixteenth century, or, indeed, at any period, in defending the truth of Ireland’s history, was of Norman descent. The illustrious Irish scholar and erudite Read More …
[Francis King] induced John Keating and his associates to purchase 300,000 acres from William Brigham in what are now Potter and McKean Counties, Pennsylvania.[…][John] Keating was born in 1760 – one of four brothers who served with distinction in the Read More …
Madame Keating, Superior of the Monastery of the Visitation at Frederick, Md., was the daughter of Captain John Keating, of the French service, a chevalier of the Order of St. Louis. Captain Keating was the son of Baron Keating, of Read More …
KEATING, MAURICE BAGENAL ST. LEGER (d. 1835), soldier and author, entered the 3rd dragoons as cornet on 14 May 1778, but obtained a lieutenancy in the 22nd light dragoons on 16 Dec. 1779, and became captain on 20 June 1781, Read More …
KEATING, JOHN (ft. 1680), Irish judge, was son of Maurice Keating of Narraghmore, co. Kildare. He was a protestant. On 22 Jan. 1661-2 he was deputy-clerk in the Irish House of Lords, and received a gratuity of 300l. for his Read More …
Chris Mooney wrote on an earlier incarnation of this site: Signs are that the final resting place of Ireland’s most famous Keating, the 17th century historian and author of FORAS FEASA AR ÉIRINN [the history of Ireland] Dr Geoffrey Keating, Read More …
Google Book’s ever-growing collection of books is amazing. Here’s a biography of Caption John Keating of King James’s Irish Army, from 1689.
More information on non-related Keatings from Google Books. This one deals with a family of Keatings in Maine. Read on for more.
Geoffrey Keating is perhaps the most famous of the Keating family, having written an acclaimed history of Ireland. A brief biography from Anglo-Irish and Other Genealogies can be found after the jump.
Some time back, on of the earlier incarnations of KeatingSearch.com, Anne B. Keating wrote, In the realm of tall tales I remember from childhood, was the story of a Hugh Keating who fought back Cromwell’s troops with a a sword Read More …
An extract from the “Memoir of the Father Geoffrey Keating, D. D.”, by Michael Doheny, Esq. This memoir makes up part of the introduction to John O’Mahony’s translation of Geoffrey Keating’s “The History of Ireland” (in Irish Gaelic, “Foras Feasa Read More …