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These eighteen essays are about our ancestors and their times and place. Also included are five longer essays highlighting interesting things.

American Stories    

Michael O'Malley - A Politician/businessman

Florida Binette - An immigrant and mother

Edward Hogan - An Pittsburgh Entrepreneur

Owen O'Grady - An immigrant Hero from Kinnadoohy
  
World War II Heroes - from 3 families

Tidbits: Some Observations about Interesting People  

 

Irish Stories

O'Malley Ancestral Home Kinnadoohy, Co. Mayo

What happened to the Heneghans?

Things do change in the West of Ireland - slowly

Where O'Malley relatives found their Mates

Chain Migration - finding relatives to help

 A Personal Bibliography: books that introduced me to the life and times of my Irish ancestors, published in 2012 in The Septs

Griffith's Valuation, Kinnadoohy 1850's

Ordinance Survey Map - Kinnadoohy

 

French-Canadian Stories

French-Canadian measurements

Irish and French Canadian: What's the Connection

I learned a lot about my French-Canadian ancestors life and times, published in 2011 in The Genealogist

Dubois-Binette Quebec Family Migration 

 

Longer Stories

A Summary of my French-Canadian Family History Research

French-Canadian and Franco-American History as told with some French Expressions -- a PowerPoint presentation

A Tribute to Una O'Malley - Our Irish Family Historian

The Religious Life: Sr. M. Julia O'Malley, R.G.S. and Fr. Charles Sheedy, C.S.C.

Irish Genealogy - A Talk

If you have a remarkable person in your family that I might add to this list, please send it to me.