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Leo Joseph Martin Broderick (1919-1943) Update: CWGC Releases New Records
On August 13, 2015 new records were added to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) website:"The records of almost 600,000 Second World War casualties commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves...
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52 Ancestors No. 33: The Landers Brothers Part I
This is the story of my stepmother's cousins the Landers brothers.I learned that both men were convicts in the Canadian penitentiary system, activists in the struggle for Prisoners Rights in Canada and...
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Update: My Grandparent's Funeral Cards
On a recent trip to Michigan I had the joy of meeting with cousins and shared more family history stories. I was so excited when cousin Shelly Coughlin MacKinnon gave me some of her prayer cards (see...
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52 Ancestors No. 34: Brother Berchmans F.S.C. - A "True Son of De La Salle"
I have written previously about Bernard Broderick who I met in November 1987. The transcript from that brief meeting has proved to be invaluable to me in my Broderick family history research over the...
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52 Ancestors No. 35: Still Searching for WW II PoW Stories
My first cousin (2x removed) - RCAF Warrant Officer (Bomb Aimer) Leo Joseph Martin Broderick was born December 22, 1919 and died on 06 September 1943 at the young age of 24.Leo died while flying in a...
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52 Ancestors No. 36: “Working for a Living.”
This week's theme for Amy Crow's 52 Ancestors is "Working For A Living" and I thought that I would do a review of various occupations in my family tree.Our ancestor's "Working For A Living"Most of the...
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Perusing the News: Col. Timothy J. Moynahan (1870-1935)
My family knows that I LOVE perusing through newspapers. OLD newspapers. The older the better!Source: The Lehi Sun, Lehi, Utah June 9, 1921Recently I have been perusing three (new to me) online...
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52 Ancestors No. 38: WWII Service Files of Canadian War Dead, 1939-1947
Source: Library and Archives Canada file RG24 24929Ancestry.ca added more files to the database "WWII Service Files of War Dead, 1939-1947" and I am happy to report that Leo Joseph Broderick's files...
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1921 - Eugene Moynahan Deserves Your Vote
Library of CongressRichmond daily register., July 30, 1921, Image 6For Moynahans that I discover through my research who have no direct relation that I am aware of, I will label them with tags:...
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This Day In History - 1943
Leo Joseph Martin Broderick reported missing after air operations overseas.http://moynahangenealogy.blogspot.ca/2014/09/52-ancestors-32-rcaf-leo-joseph-martin.html
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52 Ancestors No. 39: The Coughlin's 1940s Sing-Along! Part 1
I was so excited to receive a CD in the mail from Michigan from my cousin Gail Kinsel. The recordings are from the 1940s and feature my Coughlin ancestors singing and carrying on.I converted the CD...
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52 Ancestors No. 40: 100 Years After His Death - A Wonderful Find - Martin...
Thanks to Michigan Family Trails, I spent the day searching through the Detroit Free Press (DFP) and found some incredible articles that I will be sharing over the next little while.Michigan Family...
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52 Ancestors No.41: Nurse Agnes (Broderick) Casey
This week's post is about my 1st cousin 2x removed Agnes Broderick (1904-1984) who was the daughter of Patrick Broderick (1871-1943) and Clara Moynahan (1882-1919).Agnes' parents Patrick and Clara...
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The Well Dressed Woman of 1916
This lovely little piece was found in the Detroit Free Press (29 Oct 1916)Banner from Page 101 of 108; Detroit Free Press (29 Oct 1916)The "Fabric Bags" poemThe original page 101 of 108; Detroit Free...
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Thanks Amy Crow for 31 Days of Genealogy
Jeremiah and Mary (Brennan) Moynahan (based on of photograph circa 1922)Mixed media sketch on monoprint by Cindi Moynahan-ForemanIt's Day 31 of Amy Crow's "31 Days of Genealogy" and I am incredibly...
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November 11 - Remembering My Ancestors
Link: http://moynahangenealogy.blogspot.ca/2014/11/remembrance-day-2014-lest-we-forget.html
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Tombstone Tuesday - The St Alphonsus' Moynahans
St Alphonsus Cemetery, Windsor, OntarioI love this Moynahan headstone at the St Alphonsus cemetery in Windsor, Ontario. I have no idea of the scale of it because I have never seen it personally, but I...
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52 Ancestors No. 42 - Coughlin "Folio Pak Snaps"
I found this "Folio Pak Snaps" photo book recently when sorting through some genealogy papers and what a delightful find it was!This little book is inscribed,"Elizabeth & William Coughlin's Golden...
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52 Ancestors No. 37 - The Lefaives of Detroit
This is No.37 of 52 Ancestor posts for the year 2015. This particular post sat as a draft and I am returning to it now in December 2015.I know so little about the Lefaive family and after discovering...
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52 Ancestors No.43: The Coughlin's 1940s Sing-Along! Part 2
I received a wonderful gift in the mail in October 2015 from my Detroit cousin Gail Kinsel. It was a digital copy of a vinyl recording that was titled, "Mom & Dad & Uncle Danny & family"...
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