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Faith & Fortitude: Mary Jane's Story Concludes

  The read this series of posts from the beginning, click here: https://myleavesonthetree.blogspot.com/2025/03/from-buffalo-to-evans-new-york-mary.html .   As Mary Jane Sheridan Cassidy navigated the waters of widowhood and single parenting after her husband Philip’s death , she likely relied on her faith to hold her family together and to provide a framework to her life. It was still her job as a Catholic parent to be the first teacher of her children and she no doubt felt a keen responsibility for their faith lives.    Coming of the Christian Brothers One outside force which might have helped her in this regard were the Christian Brothers, a Catholic religious order which was founded by Jean Baptiste de La Salle in 1680 in France. 1 The Brothers arrived to minister in St. Catharines, Ontario, in 1876, just a few years after Philip’s death, and took over a parish school there. The Brothers focused on education, and they trained their pupils to be faithful Cat...
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Behind the Stories: A Peek Behind the Research Curtain

Do you want to peek behind the genealogical curtain? 1

Have you ever wondered how I come up with information for my blog posts? It should come as no surprise that the stories all flow from research discoveries.

Genealogical research can be as simple as ordering a vital record, like a birth or death record. Or, it can be as complicated as researching multiple generations of a family line for a lineage society, or looking deeply at a person or event—and take several months to complete.

The constant in all my research? I invariably find many interesting stories along the way to answering a specific research question, and these stories beg to be told.

I recently focused on my Croatian great grandmother for a two-part blog series. The information I uncovered was the product of the "Research Like a Pro," research process I use, created by genealogists/podcasters Diana Shults Elder and Nicole Dyer. They kindly asked me to write about my project for their FamilyLocket blog.

So, if you'd like to peek behind my "genealogical curtain," dive into the blog post, "Identifying Reasons for Emigration Using the Research Like a Pro Process."2

Until next time...

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NOTES

1 Sir John Tenniel, Alice in Wonderland illustration, Project Gutenberg (https://bit.ly/2JNrG8s: accessed 6 April 2020). This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net.

2 Diana Elder and Nancy Gilbride Casey, "Identifying Reasons for Emigration Using the Research Like a Pro Process." FamilyLocket, 11 March 2020 (https://bit.ly/2JIvbx7 : accessed 6 April 2020).









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