The Sand Patch Tunnel
“The following year, my father and his brother Patrick began to take contracts all up through Pa., Va., and West Va., and began to build the railroads to open up the three states. It took years to finish them. It Read More …
Category: Photographs
Posts containing or relating to photographs or other family imagery.
Jeremiah A. Counihan (13 October 1884 – 13 December 1975)
Jeremiah Counihan Jeremiah (Jerry) A. Counihan, 91, formerly of 224 Harrison Street, died yesterday. He had been ill three years. Born in Frostburg, he was a son of the late John and Catherine (Keating) Counihan. Mr. Counihan was a member Read More …
Keating-Pope Wedding (7 October 1933)
This image is from the wedding of my grandparents, John William Keating and Sara Elizabeth Pope. It comes from a scanned negative and is a group shot from the wedding and reception that I’d never seen before scanning it in. Read More …
Another Evening of Scanning
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 …
Another Photo Album
I’ve added another photo album to the gallery. These were photographs from another album that belonged to my grandmother. Mostly Keatings, Popes, Millers, and Bowmans (Bowmen?).
Pictures, pictures, and more pictures!
Genealogy is a wonderful hobby, but it often devolves to names and dates, particularly in generations long past. The obsessive-compulsive amongst my fellow genealogists (Teri would include me) find this fascinating, but can bore or even turn off those who Read More …
Picture ID: Maude Genevieve Pope & Others
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.
Migans at Old Holy Family Cemetery
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.
More on Leo and John’s Cruise
A bit more information on Leo and John’s cruise…
Keating’s Balsam of Horehound
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.)
A Day at the Races
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 …
Leo Dowling Migan’s Cruise to Europe
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 …