An ongoing journal of genealogical and family discovery.
An extra entry for today, as I’ve made mention of it in the past. In the 1830 Wilson’s Dublin Directory is listed an “Eliza Keating”, teacher. I found an advertisement of hers within The Freeman’s Journal, a newspaper published in Read More …
Sometimes, years after doing your family research, you come across a newspaper article that you had never seen before. An article that raises as many questions as it answers. This is one of those articles.
“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 …
There are two letters written by children of John C. Keating that helped me start my research. Though written many years after the events described, and I’ve since found that some of the details (such as dates) are not precise, Read More …
Sister Mary Esprit FROSTBURG – Sister Mary Saint Esprit of the Order of the Good Shepherd, 92, died Tuesday in St. Mary’s Hospital, Troy, N. Y., following a fall in which she suffered a broken hip. The former Miss Agnes Read More …
Katie Counihan and others to John W. Keating and others Deed.Filed and Recorded Dec. 2d 1897 @ 1.40 P.M. This deed made this 29th day of March in the year One thousand eight hundred and ninety seven by Katie Counihan Read More …