Tag Archives: Family: Cahill

A few weeks back, Denise Levenick over at The Family Curator has challenged us Genea-Bloggers to a treasure hunt. You can see the details in my original post. I decided to explore a box of stock certificates and documents that my paternal grandmother and great-grandmother had. My plan (a.k.a. treasure map) was as follows: Sort through the papers and organize by company. Determine if the companies still exist (or absolved into other companies). Determine if the stocks are still “valid” and if so, are they “transferable.” Report my progress/findings in […]

As I peruse other blogs, I see some pretty neat things.  I came across digital scrapbook pages and thought I’d give it a whirl. This scrapbook page was designed by Raspberry Road Designs.  The photo is of Joseph CAHILL and Jean Marie MILLER taken on their wedding day on 28 October 1967; privately held by Julie Marie CAHILL Tarr.

Weekly column sharing birth, marriage, and death events for people in my family tree.

Here’s a quick status on my “homework.”  View the original post for details of my “assignment.”

The theme for the 57th Edition of the Carnival of Genealogy is news, specifically newspapers. Newspapers can be a wonderful source of family history information. Share some aspect about your family history that you learned about in a newspaper. Articles, advertisements, obituaries, classified ads, photos… all are fair game if they appeared in a newspaper. Don’t be shy now, show us what you’ve got! What did you learn about your family from this information? Was the information accurate? How did you learn about this information… online search? Perusing old newspapers? […]

The 11th Edition of Central & Eastern European Genealogy Carnival is being hosted by Steve Danko over at Steve’s Genealogy Blog. The theme is given names and Steve has listed some possible topics to discuss as follows:

Weekly column sharing birth, marriage, and death events for people in my family tree.

To me and my hubby, Jim! We’ve been married five years today.