Due to various reasons I didn’t want to enter any data into the genealogy file tonight, so I spent some time researching the census instead, using the HeritageQuest Online that I referred to in a previous entry. In the 1870 US Federal Census, I found a possibility for Charles McCullough, Jr. (my great-great-grandfather), and I also located Sarah Dohoney (my great-great-great grandmother) and her three daughers!
Sarah came over from Ireland with her three daughters around 1850 or 1855 (have not yet been able to find them in any passenger lists). In 1870, she was living with her oldest daughter Hannah and Hannah’s husband John Hassett, in Steubenville, Ohio. Honora Dohoney (listed as Nora) was a domestic servant in Pittsburgh, I think, while Bridget Dohoney (Kitty Lou’s grandmother) was already married to John Kenefick, and they were also living in Pittsburgh.
It was fun doing some research instead of learning about my new program or cleaning up data that’s already in there. Plus it helps me think about how I want to set up the new program to make the research easier and highlight where I have missing information (like someone who should be included in a census that I haven’t found yet). I can’t find any of our Karls in the 1870 census, and yet I know they were here. Will have to keep searching and get creative . . .
Posted by elizabeth at January 15, 2003 12:17 AM