Tag Archives: Ireland

Sharing a Birthday

Sunday, May 1st is my birthday.  It also happens to be my dog’s birthday.  And my uncle’s.  So, I went looking through my family history research to see who else in my family was born on May Day. Of all … Continue reading

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Valentine Hollingsworth

A different world.  One of the challenges of doing family history is that almost all my ancestors lived in another world–not another nation, not another place, but a different world. Life has changed so much over the past decades and … Continue reading

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Hospitality

My wife and I don’t entertain.  We don’t host people in our home.  We rarely even allow anyone to cross our threshold.  (My wife has written very amusingly about this in her own blog post at Mirrored Images.) You would … Continue reading

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