Norma Jean Holley, 76, passed away Thursday morning, November 4, 2021, in Miami, FL. Jean, as she preferred, was born in Pensacola, FL on November 18, 1944 to the late Warren Theodore “Ted” Peabody and Evelyn Burnham. Ted, born near Ekalaka, Montana in 1920, was son of Lawrence “Dick”...
IS THIS A PHOTO OF OUR GG-GRANDFATHER HILLIARD ASKEW ? Always a surprise in this family history business – expect the unexpected! Faithful visitors to our website will note that there has been a big pause in my postings. I am catching up just a little bit now in dealing...
Those who have followed the saga of our Hearn family will likely remember that our great-great grandfather George Washington Hearn (1834-1882) was born in Tennessee as were his siblings James (ca 1835-ca 1865) and Jane (ca 1830-1860s). These births in Tennessee were a very unique marker for our people because...
Those who followed our “Our Irish Roots” hunt for the Keenan connection to the Thomas McDonough family may remember that our eventual success hinged on having one of our Keenans divulge in a 1926 letter that Mary Ann Keenan (1814-1897) was both a sister of my ggg-gf Hugh Keenan (1799-1879)...
Those who followed our “Our Irish Roots” hunt for the Keenan connection to the Thomas McDonough family may remember that our eventual success hinged on having one of our Keenans divulge in a 1926 letter that Mary Ann Keenan (1814-1897) was both a sister of my ggg-gf Hugh Keenan (1799-1879)...
I have spent some months now trying to find the time to update some of the information on this site and to introduce some new findings. Unfortunately, a family illness has badly hampered both my family research and my ability to keep the site as current as I would have liked. Last...
One of the most challenging and satisfying searches I’ve done since getting into this business took place over a period of ten years and involved turning one tiny shred of evidence into a largely successful “find.” This was the case of my gg-aunt Mary Hearn, elder sister of my...
After some weeks of effort, I have managed to restore my “Askew Family Website” more or less to the condition it was in when I lost my Florida International University site hosting in late 2015. This website depicts the history of my mother’s Askew family, including marriages into the...
After you’ve been doing family history for a while, you find yourself in a ringside seat observing the role that “serendipity” — fortunate circumstance – has played in the evolution of your being. And, I don’t think I’m the only one who has developed an awareness that many things seem...
I’ve been searching back through a large group of documents we collected during our quest to discover my great-grandfather Keenan’s family history. As I mentioned in the first part of Our Irish Roots, we had quite a hard time in the years 2001-2004 discovering much of anything on-line about...
