Moynahan Surnames

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Saturday, November 13, 2021

Kerry Chronicles: Nohoval Cemetery

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In 2019, our brother Patrick Moynahan sponsored our very first trip to Ireland so that we could walk in the footsteps of our ancestors. Bac...
Friday, November 5, 2021

Remember Them November 11

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My genealogical research has provided me with many details about the role that many of my ancestors played in the two world wars as well as ...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

A One-Name Study: The Annal Family

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My Wallaceburg, Ontario Annal Family (Left to right: Back: Joe Hess, John Annal, William Annal, Gabriel Hess; Front: Mary Jane Annal, Mary (...
Sunday, October 31, 2021

Creighton Trivia: Which Ancestor Played The Trumpet ?

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My cousins are organizing another Creighton (Crichton) - Moreland - Melhuish family reunion for 2022 to be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  I ...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

My Visit to the Wellington Archives

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In October 2021 I finally visited (with my daughter) the Wellington County Museum and Archives , a trip that I was obliged to postpone for t...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Essex County Midwife - Mary (Brennan) Moynahan

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My 2nd great-grandmother Mary (Brennan) Moynahan (1841-1926) was a midwife in Essex county, Ontario according to the oral history passed do...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

On This Day: Frederick Dixon Foreman Was Born In 1880

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I thought a lot about my husband's great grandfather Frederick Dixon Foreman (1880-1951) this month. F.D. Foreman was born on this day t...
Saturday, September 25, 2021

The Thomas of Cork - Found At Last!

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In 1900, eighty-seven year-old Timothy Moynahan (1813-1902) sat on his Mercer St. (Windsor, Essex, Ontario) porch for a Detroit Free Press p...
Friday, September 17, 2021

Moynahan Bowling Stories

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One of my favourite parts of family history research is collecting stories from family members.  Recently I came across a newspaper clipping...
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Sunday, September 12, 2021

September 2021 Conference

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The BRITISH ISLES FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY OF GREATER OTTAWA will be hosting a virtual conference “Irish Lines and Female Finds” exploring Iri...
Saturday, September 11, 2021

National Grandparents Day 2021

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Grandparents Day is celebrated in various countries and on various dates around the world. In North America it is celebrated on the first S...
Thursday, August 12, 2021

Four Moreland Children - Three Continents

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I often refer to the four Moreland children (Jemima, Catherine, John and Mary Jane) as "orphans" but that is not entirely true. Th...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

NEWSFLASH: British Newspaper Archive FREE

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Yesterday, one million pages on the British Newspaper Archive site have become free and DO NOT require any subscription payment to view. T...
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Friday, August 6, 2021

Final Resting Place: John Miller Moreland (1882-1940)

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    In July 2021, returning home to Ottawa from Toronto, I decided to stop and visit the Cataraqui Cemetery in Kingston, Ontario for the v...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

The Olympics: "Faster, Higher, Stronger"

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Congratulations to Canada’s Andre De Grasse who won GOLD yesterday in the Men’s 200m with a time of 19.62 seconds making him the first Cana...
Thursday, July 15, 2021

Colorizing and Animating Ancestor Photos

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I recently shared an animation on social media of my 2nd great-grandmother (2nd GG) Mary (Brennan) Moynahan (1841-1926) (based on the photo...
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Monday, June 21, 2021

Black Forty-Seven: The Brodericks Atlantic Crossing

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I didn't want to get my hopes up when I learned new details about my 3rd great-grandfather Michael Broderick's (1801-1889) emigratio...
Sunday, June 20, 2021

Ontario Township Papers For Matthew Moynahan (1770-1860)

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Piecing together the story of our ancestors has become increasingly more convenient as many records are digitized and made available online....
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Friday, June 18, 2021

Ancestry Adds The Casey Collection

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In October 2020, I blogged about a wonderful presentation by the Olde Sandwich South and Area Historical Society OSSAHS regarding the Iris...
Saturday, June 12, 2021

When Obituaries Get It Right (And Sometimes Wrong)

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In building my Broderick family tree, I have relied upon obituaries to fill in many of the blanks. Recently, with the discovery of my 3rd Gr...
Friday, June 4, 2021

Randy Majors "Ancestor Search" Yields Surprising Results

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Randy Majors created an online tool called "Ancestor Search" for genealogists and it is one of the BEST search engines that I reg...
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Update For Subscribers By Email

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In April, 2021 Google announced that the Feedburner service (that has been automatically generating emails about this blog) would be discon...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

My May 2021 Webinar: "Finding Our Female Ancestors"

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In May 2021, I was invited by the Essex Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society to present a webinar entitled "Finding Your Female ...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

Mortimer ("Morty") Moynahan (1833-1881)

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Police arrived at the tenement house No. 445 Cherry Street in New York City in July 1874 and inside they discovered Mortimer Moynahan ...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

The Minahan Titanic Story

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I have collected A LOT of "Moynahan" stories  (and all spelling variants of the surname) over the years. The Moynahan/Minahan st...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Part II: The Curds of Dover, England

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My maternal grandmother Dorothy Claire (Moreland) Creighton (1909-2000) never really knew her mother Florence Mary (Curd) Moreland (1886-19...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

An eBay Photograph Leads Me (Incorrectly) To Minehan DNA Matches

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The Scene: It's Monday morning and I'm clearing my email inbox and I come across an eBay alert for Minahan's Wendell Inn at Croo...
Friday, March 19, 2021

Daniel J. Coughlin's Elgin Pocket Watch

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 During the period of COVID-19 in 2020 when all of the archives and museums around the world were forced to close, many museums and individ...

The Coughlin China Cabinet

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During the period of COVID-19 in 2020 when all of the archives and museums around the world were forced to close, many museums and individu...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

The Indiana Covered Bridges Road Trip

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Due to COVID-19, the Creighton sisters (my aunts Barb and Deb) have not visited each other since October 2019. One sister lives in the Unite...