My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's  Saturday Night  again - time for some more  Genealogy Fun!! Our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing : 1) Do you use Timelines to help you in your research?  Create a Timeline (a chronological list with dates and events) for one of your ancestors that includes their parents, siblings, spouse(s) and children.  Tell us how you did it, and show us your work. 2)  Put it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a link in a comment to this post. I use RootsMagic as my genealogy software program and there are two ways to show a timeline. The first is to create a report from Reports > Lists > Timelines. One can make an individual timeline or one from people in a list. I’m not sure how to create a list of people, so here is the individual timeline for Honora (Gleeson) Douras. There is not much in her timeline—only birth, marriage, and death inf...

This is my second year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow . I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past . I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. I love maps. I have had a love affair with maps since that wonderful day in 5th grade when Mrs. Griffin, our teacher, gave each of us a folded travel map from a local gas station. We first learned how to unfold and refold the map properly. Then we completed exercises about the symbols in the key, and how to use the map to get from one place to another. From ebay:  https://www.ebay.com/itm/10-Vintage-California-Gas-Station-Official-Road-Maps-1964-1971/183791501448?hash=item2acad3c088:g:vYEAAOSwEflcxgBP I totally understood the map! It was the first time that I totally “got” what a teacher was teaching, and I “got” it before many of the other pupils. If I had known sooner that I could have majored...

Mary Martha Gleeson was born in Carleton County, Ontario, Canada on 8 July 1863 to John Gleeson and Margaret Tierney. [1] She was the second daughter and fourth child born to John and Margaret. She was baptized on 2 August 1863 at St. Phillip’s Catholic Church by Father O’Connell. James Douras and Susan Smith were the sponsors. [2] James Douras was John’s sister, Honora’s husband, or rather, Mary Martha’s uncle. At this time, I don’t know who Susan Smith was. Was she a relative of John or Margaret Gleeson, or was she an in-law like James Douras? [Note: Mary Martha’s brother, John, married a Susan Smith later in 1894, but this was not the same Susan.] She moved to Dakota  Territory with her parents around 1880 and married her husband, Warren Edmond Gilbert on 9 Sep 1886 in Mitchell, Davison Co, South Dakota. A newspaper article about the marriage: "Gilbert-Gleeson.  At the Catholic church in this city at 8:30 am Thursday, by Rev. Father Sheehan.  Mary Martha...

I am participating in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge (April 2016) , where we write 26 blog posts featuring each letter of the alphabet. I is for Ireland One fourth of my ancestry is Irish.  This comes from my father’s side of the family. Here you can see his ancestry on his mother’s side of the family. My father's maternal Irish ancestry Irish surnames I am researching: Gleeson Tierney Murray Sullivan Sheehan The Gleeson , Tierney , and Murray families ended up in Ontario, Canada. Some of the Gleesons moved to the United States. I think the Tierney and Gleeson  families came from County Tipperary, near Nenagh. County Tipperary The Sullivan and Sheehan families were from County Cork near Castletown Berehaven, which on the map below is near Schull. The Sullivans arrived in the United States in the 1860s.  County Cork I hope to someday visit the land of my Irish ancestors, both in Canada and Ireland. Copyr...

I am participating in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge (April 2016) , where we write 26 blog posts featuring each letter of the alphabet. F is for Frank Gleeson Francis “Frank” Thomas Gleeson was my paternal great granduncle, and the younger brother of my second great grandmother, Anna Gleeson who married John H. Sullivan.  Francis Thomas "Frank" Gleeson He was born 29 December 1877 in Ontario, Canada, the tenth child of John Gleeson and Margaret Tierney, and baptized at the Basilique Notre Dame in Ottawa on the 1 January 1878. [1] Until yesterday, I wasn't sure when he was born and didn't know where he was baptized. He didn’t appear in the baptism records of St. Philip Church in Richmond, Ontario, where the family was living and his older brothers and sisters had been baptized. His parents moved the family to Dakota Territory around 1879-80. It was possible they had moved a little earlier and he was born during the travel or in Dakota Territory...

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has a new assignment for us. 1) Who is your most recent immigrant ancestor?  I'm assuming that your ancestors moved from one country to another at some point in time. 2)  Tell us about that person - name, birth and death, emigration and immigration country and port, date or year of immigration, etc. My most recent immigrant was Anna Maria Gleeson, who arrived in the United States from Canada in 1879 or 1880. [1] There’s confusion as to the exact date she arrived. The year 1880 was stated in the 1900 census. [2]   Her father stated on his naturalization that he arrived April 1879, [3] but later stated 1880 on the 1900 census [4] and 1879 on the 1910 census. [5] Anna filed an intention to naturalized and stated on 7 Oct 1880, that she arrived at the port of Huron in the month of February 1879. [6] Davison Co, 2nd Judicial District, Declarations of Intention 1880-1886, p 24, Ann Gleeson. She was born 13 Feb 1860 i...