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"Applying Lessons Learned" When Researching Female Ancestors

Image by rawpixel.com   Women in our family trees frequently get short shrift, don't they? With maiden names often undiscovered, they sometime languish, faded and unknown, next to their better-documented husbands on our family trees. Records don't often exist for them, distant descendants might not know their names, or they died without progeny to remember and carry their names forward. What if there was a resource that could help you discover more about those silent women to bring them out of the shadows? Such a resources exists in Telling Her Story: A Guide to Writing About Women of the Past by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack (Salt Lake City: Scattered Leaves Press, 2024). I used what I learned from this book to craft a series of blog posts on my great-great-great grandmother Mary Jane Sheridan. And I wrote about that process in the article: "Applying Lessons Learned," for the September 2025 issue of  Stirpes , the Journal of the Texas State Genealogical Society. Read it...
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An Irish Perspective on Scranton


You may have heard that President Joe Biden traveled to his ancestral homeland in County Mayo, Ireland back in April. President Biden was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, also the birthplace of several of our Gilbride and McAndrew family lines, who likely also trace their roots back to County Mayo. At least one ancestor, my great-great grandmother Ann Kelly McAndrew, reportedly was born in County Mayo, though her exact birthplace is yet to be discovered.1

While in Ireland, President Biden visited the North Mayo Heritage Centre, dedicated to preserving and promoting the rich heritage of the region. The Centre's April 16, 2023 publication—Mayo Heritage Newsletter—profiled Scranton and its links to Mayo, in honor of President's visit.2 

I asked Centre staff for permission to include this article here, as it is interesting to see Scranton through Irish eyes. Many thanks to the North Mayo Heritage Centre staff for allowing me to reprint their newsletter article. 

If you prefer to read the article in PDF form, click here and download "Newsletter 16/04/23." Find an archive of past newsletters at the same webpage.

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NOTES

All links accessed 16 May 2023.

1 State of Ohio, Department of Health, Certificate of Death 68240, Ann McAndrew, 16 December 1925; database and images, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953," FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9PKD-RJM : 16 May 2023); citing County Courthouse, Cleveland.

2 "Scranton," Mayo Heritage Newsletter, Vol. IV, #16, 16 April 2023; digital image, North Mayo Heritage Centre (https://www.northmayogenealogy.com/latest). Images used with permission.

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