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The family cards display linked families. A family includes a couple, the couple's parents, and the couple's children. Clicking on a parent or a child of the couple brings up a new family. Clicking on one of the couple brings up a person sheet, with more details. Person sheets are linked to other person sheets and to the family sheet.
Although the family cards were originally generated by the Reunion genealogy program, I now maintain the cards using the HTML tools in BBEdit, along with the data tools in Perl-Gedcom and Lifelines. A Codeless Language Module (a syntax file) for use in BBEdit with .ged files can be downloaded from here.
Last Updated September 2004
The cards themselves are just tabulated text. Eventually all cards will have complete source citations, including proper credit to my cousins and online friends. Citations for cousins and friends are abbreviated to two or three initials, linked back to this spot. They are
- JKN: Jim Naureckas has gathered together on his Jim's Irish Genealogy Pages much more information about our Murtha and Boyle relatives. Jim is my second cousin.
- TK: Tom Kearney, Jim's uncle, compiled in July 1994 A Brief History of the Murtha Family, Notes from talks with Adeline Murtha Kearney—1958 and 1983.
- TEB: Thomas Edward Boyle, and his son Shawn. Shawn is my third cousin.
- JCS: Julia Sinwell's father is my third cousin.
- AB: Alan Bowker is my mother's third cousin. His information about the Powers family.
- AHH: Ace Howard Humbertson is my mother's fourth cousin. His family tree file contains over 13,000 individuals.
- BT: Bob Thompson filled me in on the Spates family.
Special Cards
The card for my great-grandfather
Thomas Francis Meagher is linked to newspaper reports about his Standard Mine accident and death.
Cards with links to old pictures:
Cards with links to online census images:
Immigrants to the Coal and Coke Region:
- My grandparents Emery Tóth and Mary Barkó came from Hungary in 1905.
- My great-grandfather John Murtha came from Ireland in 1882.
- My great-grandfather Thomas Meagher came from eastern Ohio sometime between 1880 and 1887.
- My great-grandmother Annie Brooks came from western Maryland sometime between 1883 and 1887.
- My great-great-grandfather Felix Boyle and his family came from Philadelphia in the 1870s just as the coal and coke boom was beginning around Connellsville.
Some earlier migrants:
- When the railroad reached Ohio in the mid-1850's, the Meagher brothers were among the first workers who moved into the newly developed industrial areas.
- In western Maryland, it was the established industry around Frostburg that attracted the Powers family there in the mid-1850's.
- My great-great-great-grandfather John L. W. Brooks was born in Pennsylvania in 1815.
- My great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Thomas Humbertson was one of the first settlers in western Maryland.
