Two compelling family histories from Peg Guifoyle

The Condons and the Gradys From Ireland to America: History, Essay, and Genealogy

The Condons and the Gradys From Ireland to America: History, Essay, and Genealogy

This story started with a set of old letters in a box.

Deep research, stories, and photographs combine to reconstruct the particulars of historical lives. Many children and sibling names included, and many sources and references cited, with particular attention paid to women. Not a workbook, but an illustration of one illuminating path through the past, written by a direct descendant curious about lives that came before, and the times in which they lived. Context, the author believes, is critical to understanding the past. Includes an extended section tracing individuals through the Famine and the diaspora, and an extended section on the Great Chicago Fire.

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Clonmel, County Tipperary, County Limerick, Condon, Grady, County Cork, Hackett, St. Mary’s, Hogan, Prendergast, Donnelly, Sexton, St. Patrick’s Well, Suir, Tipperary Free Press, Shanahan, O’Brien, Laffan, Caherconlish, Kilteely, Dromkeen, The Great Hunger, The Famine, Clogheen, Skibbereen, Irish Prison Registers, Powerstown, O’Donnell, Belmont, Bulger, Swift and Co., Swift & Co., Cold Spring, West Point Foundry, Raleigh, Chicago, Canalport, Great Chicago Fire, Mother Mary Francis, Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, St. Patrick’s Church, Holy Family Jesuit Church, O’Grady, Union Stockyards, Calvary Cemetery, Town of Lake, Root Street, St. Gabriel’s, Dorney, Texas, Fort Worth Stockyards, San Angelo, Armour, Mystic Knights of Bovinia, C.O. Young.

The Van Wagners in America 1637 to 1943 : History, Essay, and Genealogy

The Condons and the Gradys From Ireland to America: History, Essay, and Genealogy

This story started with a one old photo in a box, and includes hundreds of proper names, surnames, and locations, fleshing out dry facts into stories about people and their lives.

One writer’s path through archives and public records, through memorabilia and memories, tracing a family from The Netherlands in the seventeenth century, to New York’s Hudson River Valley, and along the Erie Canal to the Midwest. Deep research, stories, and photographs combine to reconstruct the particulars of historical lives. Many children and sibling names included, and many sources and references cited, with particular attention paid to women. Written by a direct descendant curious about lives that came before, and the times in which they lived. Context, the author believes, is critical to understanding the past. Includes an extended section tracing a Civil War soldier through regimental histories, battles and subsequent years of disability.

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Van Wagner, Van Wagoner, Van Wagenen, Jacobsen, Dutch migration, Hudson River Valley history, colonial life, Atlantic crossing, Pels, Kingston New York, Wagendal, Niagara County, Dutchess County, Lockport, Somerset, Sojourner Truth, Julia Wilbur, Third New York Volunteers Cavalry, Civil War, Battle of Balls Bluff, Van Alen, Perkins, Sunday School New York State Civil War period, Portland Michigan, Civil War disability, Ahern, Tiffany, Chicago, Muskegon.

What People Are Saying…

“Speaking as a historian, a tremendous work. Excellent.”

– Catherine Emerson, Niagara County Historian, New York

“Anyone researching family history can appreciate the challenges, but to discover some of the personalities of ancestors is really a skill.”

– Kindle Customer

“…All of us who love family history can find something here; even better if you have some kind of connection with the region, ethnicity and/or time frame. I loved it.”

– KR