As noted in the post before this, I love History Detectives and watching the latest season has inspired me to transcribe a tape I made of my uncle this past April. It was a 45 minute interview, I’m on page 18, and I think I’m about halfway through the tape, finally. It’s taking a lot [...]
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Genetic interests?
Posted in genealogy, tagged genealogy, genetics, grandpa, intellect, pop on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
History Detectives – the cure for the genealogy blues…
Posted in genealogy, tagged genealogy, History Detectives, motivation on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been seriously working on my genealogy for nine years. The past few, I’ve been in and out of fervor. If a wall ends up being bricked, that’s a downer (last year.) A new record with new info, that’s a motivator. I taped my 78 year old uncle two months ago and got some new [...]
Saint Patrick’s rebirth
Posted in genealogy, tagged Cedar Rapids, flooding, genealogy on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
June 2008: U. S. Coast Guard Petty Officer First Class Don Smith of St. Louis pilots a boat past St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Cedar Rapids during the Cedar River flooding (the river is two or three blocks to the right).
This is what St. Patrick’s looked like last June. I saw this picture and [...]
A tribute to a grand Irishman, John Farrell
Posted in genealogy, tagged Benton County, genealogy, st patricks day on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Saint Patrick’s Day, I like to toast my Irish ancestors. Today, it’s great great grandpa John Farrell, who came to the US around 1848 from Kilkenny County Ireland. He landed in New Orleans, met up at some point there with my great great grandma Bridget Kelly, and married her in Vicksburg, Mississippi in January [...]
