Hand Me Down

In this episode, a great-uncle endures drought and hardship on a Dakota farm once part of the territory of the Lakota Sioux that was broken up and sold under the Dawes Act of 1887.

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In this post, I continue the story of Baldwin Gardiner, who over the course of his life appears to have been a name borrower, a home-wrecker, and a financial absconder in 19th-century San Francisco.

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In this episode, I pick up the saga of the O’Connor family after settling in Nebraska, particularly the story of my great-grandparents Thomas O’Connor and Rose Burry.

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In this episode, I introduce a 2x great-grandfather on my mother’s side who, among other things, was a Confederate POW during the Civil War and an early settler of the town of Fresno.

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In this episode, we continue Michael O'Connor's journey from Ireland in 1884 to a homestead outside of Grand Island, Nebraska.

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In this episode, I take a look at the long public service career of my great-grandfather, Michael Desmond, who held municipal offices during the Progressive Era of the early 20th century.

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In this episode, my second great-grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Ward, gets divorced, then marries, and dies – all on the same day.

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In this episode, we visit a non-Irish branch of my family tree and explore what brought them from a little village in Switzerland into the heartland of America.

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This episode started out as an attempt to find out more about a duplex that I own in East Sacramento, but I ended up learning more about the people who built it.

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In this episode, we take a closer look at the first Baldwin Gardiner from New York and his journey to California during the Gold Rush.

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