1624 West Genesee St Syracuse (formerly Geddes), New York - 1875 Cornelius Horan is my great great grandfather Thomas Horan’s oldest brother. He was born in County Tipperary, Ireland around 1827 and moved to Syracuse, New York around 1851. He married around 1857 and ended up having nine children with his wife Catherine. His father, [...]
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Remembering an Irish ancestor on St. Patrick’s Day…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged genealogy, Horan, st patricks day, Syracuse, Tipperary on March 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Ten years gone…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged death, genealogy, pop on March 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My dad’s been gone for ten years today. It’s hard to believe it’s been that long. He was still riding his bike around to the library and grocery store as of the end January/beginning of February that year. I had no idea he would die so quickly. He started not wanting to eat, we went [...]
Happy 100 grandma!
Posted in genealogy, tagged birthday, genealogy, grandma, mom on March 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today my mom’s mom would have been 100 years old. She was born in Milwaukee of parents who hadn’t yet been married five years. Her dad, my great grandpa, arrived from Austria-Hungary in 1902 (there was no Poland at that point) and by early 1909, was naturalized a U.S. citizen along with one child born [...]
Tipping the hat to the great great great grandfather from Tipperary…
Posted in genealogy, tagged genealogy, Horan, st patricks day, Syracuse, Tipperary on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
County Tipperary, Ireland Continuing my Saint Patrick’s Day tradition of honoring one of my Irish ancestors, this year I’ve chosen my oldest Irish relative who rode the ship to the United States…at probably around 60 years old. My great great great grandpa Lawrence Horan arrived in the U.S. from County Tipperary, Ireland – probably around [...]
Genetic interests?
Posted in genealogy, tagged genealogy, genetics, grandpa, intellect, pop on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Another favorite things for a rainy day…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged favorite things, genealogy, instrumentals on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s dull and gloomy outside…time once again to brighten my day with another edition of favorite things… The instrumental edition of Bob Stroud’s Rock and Roll Roots on WDRV (the Drive) I’ve always loved instrumental songs. Listening today, I noticed that a lot of the guitar gods base their instrumentals on classical music – Khachaturian’s [...]
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 [...]
Mourning what will never be…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged genealogy, grandma on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A get-together at the Farrell home July 3, 1952. Pat Farrell, Mary Farrell, Helen Krueger, Maryann Farrell and Grace Gerber. Front: John Farrell, Mugs the dog and Anton Gerber (This gathering may be a birthday party for the unseen king of the roost, newly 53-year-old Leo T. Farrell.) Seeing this picture today, which [...]
