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Image: rawpixel.com My post two weeks ago honoring my mom , Anna Margaret Kozlina Gilbride (1937-2010), encouraged others who knew Mom to comment with their memories of her. Readers responded on my Facebook page (where I share my posts weekly), with comments that were heartfelt, fun, and even surprising. Relatives and even an old neighbor from our Willowick, Ohio, neighborhood chimed in with a recollection that had me saying, "Oh yes! I remember that now, too. " 1 By cousin Becky was the first to write, "I loved Aunt Marge so much! I really loved hearing my mom on the phone with your mom. Sometimes they’d talk and laugh for hours. I always loved going to visit her. I loved her Christmas cookies. So many good memories." Yes, our moms did talk on the phone, sometimes for hours on end. Laughter would bubble up into my second-floor bedroom from the first floor kitchen where Mom was on the phone. My Aunt Margaret, Becky's mom, and my mom had been fast friends for ...
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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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