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Alerted by a fellow family historian on another online message board, I now have a link to a special search engine that retrieves photographs appearing in U.S. newspapers digitized at the U.S. Library of Congress. Here it is: https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/search For several years, the articles...

We can now add an image to the singular story of T. J. Talty, a fellow who deliberately avoided providing anything on his personal story, as i learned in an article by a frustrated news reporter of his era. However, due to a new search feature of the U.S. Library of Congress, I havethe photo used fo...

Jimbo, I agree with so many of your observations, such as what to do about no Martin McN. candidate in the 1900 Nebraska census, an obituary mention that which I had to accept based on lack of good long-distance communication in that era. I also had the 1900 heir-sought news item based on the telegr...

This posting is one that must be done, although all possible sources have not been consulted. In view of interest in McNamara emigration from Clare to the U.S., I should disclose that there are two sets of McNamara brothers arriving as a group, reliably confirmed although their descendants seem unaw...

Sheila, I am glad that you found the Yakima portion of Thomas C. McNamara's biography so interesting. I should add that that during my practice of law in Yakima I had occasion to take with attorney Mike Lynch of Yakima (likely Thomas's descendant) a groundbreaking case before the state's highest cou...

Paddy, it's good to know of DNA testing funds for McNamara men and the ability to contact you via email. It may take a while to reach the right candidates, but I will chip away at it. Sheila, while I have several notes on the Martin McNamara-Johanna/Judy McMahon family since they and their children ...

Above, on this same screen/page, Sheila wrote, as she searched upper East Clare RC baptism registers for a Patrick McNamara v.c.1846: "1. In the 1846-1862 register I found Patrick MacNamara of Martin MacNamara and Judy McMahon, no address, baptised 5 March 1847; sponsors: Harry McMahon, Cate Fahy: h...

Bravo, Jimbo, on both the underlying research and the clear, compelling telling of the saga of these McNamara families as they went about living out their lives in the U.S. I await the final installment, which will complete unraveling the knotty mystery of who was who and related to whom, doing what...

Sheila, Ah, yes, corrugated iron roofs -- as someone who grew up in farm country, I remember those. Sturdy, no-nonsense building material -- gets the job done. Part of the fabric of my formative years. However, I actually chime in to pass along a somewhat-contemporary (1897) local account of the Hat...

Now that a day or two has passed so that readers of this thread can see that Jimbo's latest post has been made, I am happy to chime in with my accolades for such a thorough effort to resolve discrepancies in the records for a family group and specific individuals. That is a model lesson in what to d...

I also await the rest of the story on the Thomas of TN who seems connected to Thomas of the VA Sharpshooters. However, there are familiar elements in the story about the 1910 John McNamara who came visiting either to or from Kentucky. That year is the same time as the travels of a mystery John McNam...

The amount of detail found on these Thomas McNamara soldiers is amazing, the product of hours of searching and reading. I am almost reduced to silence, except I know of some potentially useful resources. In no particular order and with no claim that any of these McNamara men are actually related to ...

About two years ago, word spread that the heritage authorities of the Republic of Ireland were seeking cooperation from repositories and the public, in order to collect whatever may remain (extracts, copies, errant originals in family vaults, etc.) of documents catalogued as being in the Registry of...

Jimbo, i echo Sheila's view of your outstanding research on this Thomas S. McNamara. I am not so surprised by his widespread travel, after viewing the old soldiers' home records for Civil War veteran John Carberry, who managed to get onto the books of those institutions in Maine, Texas, NY, and CA, ...

What might the “S” stand for? All I can say is that second names were not generally given to children born before 1850, or even for a long time afterwards (if baptism records are anything to go by), and I think many Irish people in America put an initial after the first name just to distinguish the...