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Image by rawpixel.   This week's post will be brief. I am busy preparing for a research trip later this week.  My paternal grandmother's ancestors are my focus. Mary Josephine Baker (1911-1981) had Belgian, Irish, German, and Scottish roots with families that first settled in the Buffalo/Sheldon/St. Catharines, Ontario areas. I've spent a good part of the past two years researching their stories and am anxious to set my feet on the ground where they lived: Buffalo, Erie, New York - Cassidy, Sheridan, and Coats families N. Evans, Erie, New York - Sheridan family Grantham/St. Catharines/Port Dalhousie, Ontario - Becker/Baker, Schiltz, Cassidy, Darragh, Dyer, Manley families Sheldon, Wyoming, New York - Schiltz, Becker/Baker, Cailteux lines  Each of these locales is within easy driving distance from Buffalo, so that will be my hub with day trips out to the various locations. I've set an ambitious schedule and am gathering visit info, making arrangements with my contacts, s...
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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.

Until next time...

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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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