City Directories

October 14th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Family |

In one of the earlier posts about the Genealogy Road Trip, I mentioned that I love City Directories. Here’s why.
Census information is great, but it only comes out every 10 years. There’s also an embargo on it — I think it’s 75 years. The 1930 data was just recently released. City directories were the [...]

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Genealogy Road Trip, Day 5

October 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Family, Travelogues |

Chicora, and a Big Find

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Genealogy Road Trip, Day 4

October 9th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Family, Travelogues |

Another Day, Another Graveyard

We’re getting a little punchy here. It was a beautiful day — sunny and a nice temperature — to walk up-and-down the rows in three different cemeteries looking for headstones that matched the names. We got a lot of exercise, but didn’t find too much of immediate use. Still, with views like this how can you complain?

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Genealogy Road Trip, Day 3

October 8th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Family, Travelogues |

In Search Of William J. Lackey

Boydstown Road
In the 1870s, some time after being discharged from the Union Army, the Lackey family lived along this road.

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Genealogy Road Trip, Day Two

October 7th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Family, Travelogues |

Kittanny, PA

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Genealogy Road Trip, Day One

October 6th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Family, Travelogues |

Clarion, PA

Downtown Clarion, with the tower of the courthouse

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Hey McGee

October 2nd, 2008 | 3 Comments | Family |

Or Hirt, or Holzschuh, or Lackey, or Dink. If your last name is one of these, you might be interested in my new genealogy page. Other names that turn up are Anderson (if you have a Butler County, PA, connection) or Miller (on the east side of Cleveland). Take a look around, and if you [...]

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The Last First Day Of School

September 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Family |

C. started her senior year of high school today. There she goes…

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Happy Belated Birthday

June 3rd, 2008 | 1 Comment | Family |

Birthday greetings to young Tim McGee, who turned 48 yesterday. Keep this up, and you’ll hit 50 before you know it.

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Cleveland Wrap-up

May 26th, 2008 | 3 Comments | Family, Home, Travelogues |

I got back Saturday night from my trip to Ohio for my aunt’s funeral. Nobody likes funerals of course, nor the deaths of loved ones. But one of the things you learn while mourning a relative who has died is how many of them have not.
So after a few days I was happy. Happy [...]

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Friday Night at the Lit

May 23rd, 2008 | 0 Comments | Entertainment, Family, Home |

We had a mini-family reunion at the Literary Cafe tonight. Here’s Denise Santa Maria, cousin Shari Bruce and her husband Rey.


And me, Carol Kerslake, and Vern Morrison.

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Sarah McGee

May 18th, 2008 | 3 Comments | Family, Home |

Sad news, my aunt Sarah died this afternoon after a long illness. Sarah was the mother of our regular contributor Shari, and as warm and generous a person as you’d ever want to meet. Please take a moment to post a condolence, thanks.

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