Taylor Alderdice

Thanks to a fabulous website called EVENDON.com, I have been able to find my grandparents' and great uncles' high school photos and stories.

My grandfather was in the first class at Taylor Alderdice High School. He graduated in 1931.

The Physics Club? Perhaps that's where I get my engineering brain! Thanks, Jeep!!

I suspected that I would find his younger brother in the next graduating class but I did not. I will have to investigate why.

My grandmother was part of the class of 1937. I wonder why her comment was "So Big." I find it neat that her photo was categorized as Ruth Betty rather than Ruth Elizabeth.

My great uncle Huck was part of the class of 1936. I wonder if it is a typo that he is Blair Frank rather than Frank Blair.

My great uncle John, http://www.evendon.net/PGHLookups/cgi-bin/HandOff-1_0.cgi?TAHS1942+TAHS1942+0060SP Class of 1942.

James Anthony Doyle - Naturalization

List of James Doyle Applications for Naturalization from Ireland in Western PA:

August 29, 1876 - Naturalization (age)
August 15, 1889 - Declaration
December 30, 1903 - Naturalization (age)
February 8, 1897 - Declaration
February 8, 1899 - Naturalization


**Edit 6/5/09 - Look for Anthony (not James Anthony), Naturalization 1872.

German Ancestors

To read later:

http://genrootsblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/german-immigrant-ancestor-hometown.html

Crawling Back

After a bit of a hiatus, I am returning to my tree-search.

I thought I'd see what I could find on the Doyles, no doubt my most frustrating branch. Anthony seemed to disappear in 1890 and 1900 from Pittsburgh records. He and Catherine were here, somewhere, but do not appear in any records until 1910. Maybe they were not yet in Pittsburgh. I can review that theory but Poppy was born here in 1889 so they must have been here.

Perhaps exploring Poppy's uncles will help. Patsy first. Was Patsy married to Rose? I'll have to check my notes.

Nothing new today. I'll have to dig up the birth records I found of Poppy and his siblings.

Book - Women in Genealogy

Women are hard to track in genealogy, I've had this trouble extremely often, and it bothers me greatly. There are numerous reasons: maiden names, no military records, no social security data, and a general disrespect by government and society that kept them from being recorded in immigration data, etc.
I want to check out this book:
The Hidden Half of the Family

West Elizabeth Township

I am working out some of the history of West Elizabeth Township, where the Pearsols lived when they came to Western PA in the early 1800's. Here is some history and factual information about West Elizabeth Township:
http://www.svcog.org/weliz.html
http://www.15122.com/3Rivers/

First Families of Pennsylvania

http://www.genpa.org/FirstFamPA.html

Must look into this.