A Family Tapestry

If Margaret Sweeney wasn’t buried with her mother—Mary Kelly—and if she wasn’t married and buried with a husband, where was she buried? ...

Admittedly, Mary Kelly is not an easy name to research. As we’ve already seen, there are scads of Kellys out there. And Kelleys, to add to...

Sometimes, when you look and look at the facts and they don’t lead you anywhere, you just have to set them all aside and come back to them...

As we’ve already seen, newspaper reports are not always the most reliable source for information when gathering clues about family history...

Having read the obituary of Timothy Kelly , who died in Fort Wayne in 1901, we now know that his remaining children, at that time, were fo...

Two steps forward, one step backward seems to be the dance step for genealogy research. In some cases, it is more like one step forwar...

Consider this a post in which I go off on a tangent and harangue the centuries-old tendency to put women in a place so unobservable, so un...