Eavan Boland reading some of her work, including 'Quarantine' and 'That the Science of Cartography is Limited'. For a biography of Eavan Boland visit http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/eavan-boland
Daykin, Nebraska - Yes, some of my direct line ancestors made a few years' stop in Daykin, Nebraska while the brother dug in and made this location his home. Specifically, John Henry Vienop 1850 had a farm and lived out the rest of his life on his own land in Eureka Township, Daykin, Jefferson County, Nebraska. His brothers, John Henry 1862 and Enrst...
Those of us who deal with Irish records may be familiar with the idea of Irish naming patterns. Since this topic proved helpful in the summer of 2011, I have updated it for a revisit today. There are some researchers who adamantly insist that the traditional Irish naming pattern is always used, but of course, there are exceptions to every rule. You...
2000 - Dad and me on horseback in the Gap of Dunloe, County Kerry, Ireland For Dad You are a blessing, to the earth, and the sky, to the people who knew you well, and who knew you little. You are a blessing, to the trees you passed, and the ground on which you once trod. All of my life I will look for you in the petals of the white rose, in the clouds ra...
In this month of March, on the 26th day, I will remember my paternal grandmother Anne 'Annie' Magee Geraghty on the fifty-ninth anniversary of her death. Today, with deep gratitude to Liza Alzo for creating the series Fearless Females, in honour of National Women's History Month, I am again posting the story of my grandmother Annie, with some updat...
This was intended to be a Wordless Wednesday post, but ended up a lot 'wordier' than usual, so I have to call it Wordy Wednesday. The principal focus of this post is images taken inside of St. Patrick's Cathedral Dublin, but some explanations were required, thus the 'words'. I have taken a lot of shots of this church, but these are a few of my favo...
It has occurred to me in recent months that my original post "It begins with where you came from." is a rather tactful, "skirting the issue" way of indicating how families go their separate ways over time. Within my own research which includes a little digging in old documents and listening to stories, it has become evident to me that people ...
Consider what you might least like to see written on the death certificate of one of your ancestors. Perhaps it might be the word 'Workhouse' recorded as the place of death. In September, at the GRO research room in Dublin, I had a discussion with a man who was very upset about discovering this on the death registration of his great-great-gra...
Click to view a larger image of an example which shows the wealth of information recorded on the 1926 census. Since Tuesday 6 March 2012, when Deputy Jimmy Deenihan, Irish Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, uttered his intention to present legislation in June or July for the release of the 1926 Irish Census, the internet has been lit u...
In the 14th century, two hundred years after the Anglo-Normans invaded Ireland, many of their descendants could no longer read English. It was thought by the English Government that they were becoming "too Irish"; therefore, any Englishman living on the island of Ireland was compelled by law to use only surnames which were deemed to be of English ...
Part 2 - Hi Again, I wanted to clarify some thingsthat the local historical society might not have straight about theVienop's. It gets confusing because there were 3 Ernest Vienop's in Napawho were all related to each other. By the way, I have pinpointed ErnestJ. Vienop on the 1920 Census. He is the correct Vienop tolive in your home but ...
Part 1 - I often find irony when I work on my family tree (or rather, my ears start burning). My Vienop Family tree is no exception to this. In the past three months, I've worked to update my family tree and post some things online. And what do you think happened? Well, the current owner of Ernest Julius Vienop's home in Napa, Califo...
Thank goodness for people such as Thomas MacEntee of GeneaBloggers and Shelley Bishop of A Sense of Family , otherwise I would have gone through yesterday blissfully unaware that this blog is now Two Years Old (two years and one day). Guess that means I am now in my terrible twos. So now with not a tantrum in sight, and in celebration of the ...
When it rains, it pours......And it did literally pour around here a number of weeks back giving me a chance to follow-up on some much needed leads from probably last winter during a rain storm. Now, my mother's side of the family has struck again. I had an O'Brien descendant post to my blog back in January and offer up some very ...
