Busted for moonshine
Maybe my favorite genealogy find in a long time – my great-granddad busted for having moonshine in his house in Pittsburgh. They owned three houses on the lot and looks like a renter had a pile of junk too. Crazy! read more →
Two great old photos…
I have about 200 photos to post, mostly from Hayley’s high school basketball and soccer seasons… or July 4th… or whatever, I’m just way behind in general. But in the past 12 hours, I’ve got two old photos of ladies I love (my mom and my mother in law) and I had to post them.. read more →
1923 Metropolitan Street, Pittsburgh
The odd thing is the house at 1923 Metropolitan Avenue in Pittsburgh that my great-grandparents owned was listed in her name on town plot maps I found. I found out the deed was given to her, not both of them. It was the nicest house on the street and had two other small rental houses.. read more →
The curious case of Helen Z. (or S.)
While I knew my great-grandfather when I was young, I never met his wife, my great-grandmother Helen. She died three years before I was born and I’ve never seen a photo of her (2015 update – I have now!). There are few family memories as the relationship between my grandfather and his parents was strained.. read more →
Genealogy note
This is one of my favorite genealogy finds. My grandfather’s senior yearbook photo and info. I really need to be logging my work for more efficient research so I’m going to be posting it all under the Genealogy section on the right side. I’m not going to have it show up on the front page.. read more →
Charles Calo and Fred Falconieri
I had quite an interesting development! In July I got the names of my grandfather’s godparents, Carl Calo and Josephine Jaskowiak. No luck finding them but I sent out a few feelers. A month later one of them responded and it turned out to be a match! His godfather was not Carl but Charles Calo.. read more →
End of October Genealogy
I’ve decided to start posting about my genealogy stuff in the hopes of keep better track of it and that someone else might come along and find it. –Reviewing Tyler PA 1910 census docs looking for Helen Zurawiec, my great-grandmother. –Reading this interesting Rutgers oral history transcript from John Pino whose father was born in.. read more →
Doolin
A friend of mine (in fact my former HS Brit Lit teacher) has been in Ireland the past few weeks and I was stunned to see she ended up in the town some of my family was from, Doolin in County Clare. Doolin is a lovely small town on the western coast of Ireland and.. read more →
She Answers The Call Beyond Duty
This is a wonderful old article about my grandmother Jeannette from the 1962 Chapel Hill Weekly. She and my granddad Jim were really remarkable people. I love the last quote in the story, “If there are two patients at the hospital needing extra care at night, Jim may be with one and Jeannette with the.. read more →
Bradford Township and Oman Hillison
From the Dixon Evening Telegraph October 29, 1948 Bradford township is another subdivision of Inlet and it was in this township that the best and sturdiest of Lee county’s population was started – the Norwegians, now so populous and prosperous; the Germans too started in Bradford. John Hotzell came here about 1842, and he and.. read more →