My Trails into the Past

I have a wonderful album of photo cards of both the Gleeson and Tierney families, some taken in Canada and some in Mitchell, South Dakota. Because the index at the front is written in Muriel Gilbert’s hand, I suspect that she put the album together. Muriel was the daughter of Mary Martha Gleeson. One of the photos fits this theme well. There are six young ladies pictured together. The index says Margaret T Gleeson and friends. However, when I removed it so I could take a photo of the image, the back said “M.T. Gleeson, High School Class of ’92 Mitchell, S.D.” M.T. Gleeson is written in pencil and the rest in black ink. Curious about who her classmates and friends had been, I checked the Mitchel Daily Republican and found an article about the class of ’92. “At the Rind Opera House Monday evening will occur the graduating exercises of the High School class. The class numbers six, all young ladies, the gentlemen not being in it this year. Following is a list of the graduates: Rosa ...

Genealogists are great at documenting our ancestors’ lives but not so great documenting our own. I’ll write about what I’ve been doing the past week. This idea came from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing, who started this meme. Genealogy Blog Writing : 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 3–Long Line .  I wrote about my Lancaster line and how I had only reached Robert Lancaster in my research, but that there were many more ancestors listed on online trees. Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – Where Were Your Ancestral Families in the 1950 Census? . We wrote where we thought our families were living in 1950 in preparation for the upcoming release of the census in 2022. 9th Blogiversary! I’m celebrating my ninth anniversary of starting my first blog. Webinars/Study Groups Attended:     I met with the Monday Morning group of the Contra Costa County Genealogical Society, where we shared what we had been doing the past month with our genealogy. Gluten-free panca...

Genealogists are great at documenting our ancestors’ lives but not so great documenting our own. I’ll write about what I’ve been doing the past week. This idea came from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing, who started this meme. Genealogy Blog Writing : I wrote the following blog posts this week: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks For week 6, I wrote about “surprise” which was the awarding of honorary life membership to the PTA to my grandmother, Anna Sullivan Hork. Saturday Night Genealogy Fun : We wrote out our longest married ancestors. My children had several who were married more than 50 years. I also wrote a “On This Day” blog post about the birth of my great-grandmother, Nell (Hutson) Johnston. I forgot to mention the “ On This Day ” post I did last Sunday about my 2x-great-grandfather, Joseph Heinrich Horoch’s baptism. Lastly, I did a guest post on Cheri Hudson Passey's blog, Carolina Girl Genealogy .  The title was "Tuesday's Tips-Lisa Gorrell, CG~Preparing fo...