My 2x great-grandfather, Michael Mulcahy owned a bar at 227 Hamilton Ave., close to his home at 85 Luquer St. According to the Real Estate R...

A few years ago, I was inspired by Emily Kowalski Schroeder's post Dominik Kowalski's Certificate of Citizenship on her blog The Sp...

I've always been a fan of using Google maps for genealogy, but recently found another way they could help my research. My O'Hora fam...

I've been using Antenati to go through the 1840 marriage records for the town of Bitetto, Bari, in Puglia, Italy, where many of my ances...

My great-great-grandmother was Mary Ellen King, who married John O'Hara, probably in early 1890s Brooklyn. Her death certificate give...

I have long been confused by the fact my great-grandfather's youngest sister, Mary O'Hara, was missing from the 1910 census and miss...

During a recent weekend when FindMyPast offered free Irish records, I spent some time looking through the records of the Irish Petty Sessio...

My great-grandfather, John O'Hara (or "Grandpa JJ," as I knew him), was born in Brooklyn in the late 1896, the child of Irish ...

[A version of this post originally appeared on September 11, 2011.] I've struggled with whether to blog about my memories of Septembe...

I was recently contacted by a new cousin of mine, whose grandmother, Rosa D'Ingeo, was the sister of my great-grandmother, Maria D'I...

Recently, I told my mother how I had accidentally fallen asleep next to my son's crib waiting for him to fall asleep, and had a stiff ne...

Thinking about those times when, as genealogists, we rub the "normal" people in our families (or the genealogist at the next micro...