Look Twice: Ellen is Discovered!
Image by rawpixel. Don't you love serendipity? I was surprised by a recent discovery after coming back to a missing record from a 2019 project. I was working on my McAndrew-Kelly line from Scranton, Pennsylvania. I contacted a local researcher to look for the marriage of Patrick McAndrew (Abt. 1838-1892) and Ann Kelly (Abt. 1844-1925), and the baptisms of their children in local Catholic church records. She found everything except Patrick and Ann's marriage and the baptism of the couple's first daughter, Ellen. My friend speculated that perhaps Patrick and Ann had married in their native Ireland and that Ellen was born and baptized before they immigrated to Pennsylvania. At the time, I did not have any information on the family before the 1870 census. I've learned a lot about Patrick McAndrew, a second great-grandfather, since 2019. I've fleshed out his timeline and have narrowed daughter Ellen's birth window to between 1865 when Patrick paid federal taxes du...
