“Do you claim exemption from draft (specify grounds)?” “Yes Claim Murder” Berkeley, California, 1965? Nope. East Grand Forks, Minnesota, 1917.
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Cavan Genealogy is hosting a conference called “Crossing Borders, [.PDF brochure],” which will explore “some features of the borderland counties of Cavan, Monaghan, Fermanagh, Tyrone and Meath.”
Date: 12-15 September 2013.
Place: Slieve Russell Hotel, Ballyconnell, County Cavan, Ireland.
Census Records, Home Children, Oral History
Home Children: Open Secrets (Part 1)
by M.C. Moran • • 2 Comments
“Could you look up Mary Hogan?” asked my dad’s cousin Aggie. “I think she may have been,” and this added sotto voce, as if, even after so many years, there might yet be something to hide, “a Home Girl.”1 A…
Local History
“Let’s not have a sniffle…”
by M.C. Moran • • 0 Comments
…Let’s have a bloody good cry. And always remember: the longer you live, The sooner you bloody well die. My dad, dying of cancer, singing “Isn’t It Grand, Boys.” They broke the mold.
Catholic Records, Civil Registration, Death and Burial
Death and Burial Records: c. 1857-1861 versus 1882
by M.C. Moran •
Or: What a Difference Twenty-Some Years Can Make Death and Burial of Margaret Jamieson When Margaret Jamieson, widow of James Moran, died on 12 July 1882, her death generated two records: a Roman Catholic church burial record; 1 and an…
Death and Burial, Headstones
Burial of Thomas Dunn
by M.C. Moran •
Courtesy of Bruce B. Gordon, a response (with a great photograph!) to my query, ’Was Thomas Dunn buried at St. Bridget’s RC Cemetery at Stanleyville?‘ Thomas Dunn, who died 30 December 1886 at North Burgess (Lanark Co., Ontario) and whose…