A statue and windows in our parish church make a connection to ancestors on both sides of my family.

My great-grandfather migrates from Nebraska to Colorado and on to California during the 1920s, leaving a great deal behind in his wake.

I thought it would be worth remembering my great-grandfather on this 100th anniversary of his passing. More at oconnor.home.blog.

In 1898, my 2X great-grandfather Baldwin Gardiner was shot and killed after a botched robbery and a daring chase over San Francisco rooftops. More at oconnor.home.blog.

In this episode, I take a look at my family’s relationship to one of the major industries that employed several of my ancestors – the railroads. More at oconnor.home.blog.

With COVID raging and the current occupant of the White House suggesting wild cures, I look back into my family tree where a not-so-reliable treatment scam figured into the life of one of my third great-grandfathers in 1830s Jacksonian America. More at oconnor.home.blog.

In this episode, as I shelter-in-place under the coronavirus epidemic, I look into how some of my ancestors endured the Influenza Epidemic of 1918. More at oconnor.home.blog.

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. More at oconnor.home.blog.