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Grandparent Interviews

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A good way to get started on your family history is by doing grandparent interviews. If you do not have any grandparents who are around, pick the oldest living relative in your family to interview. You want to interview the oldest member of your family because once they pass on; those memories and knowledge goes with them, unless you talk to them and find out some important family information. Give your grandparent a phone call and ask them about themselves. They would love to hear from you and would love to know that you are interested in their lives. If you don’t know already, you are going to want to know their birthdates and locations, marriage dates and locations, and divorce date, if applicable. These are all vital information you should know about them. Ask them who their parents were, their siblings, their parents parents, who their siblings married, their nieces, nephews, everything you possibly can! Dates and locations are important for all these events as well, if the
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Irish Immigration

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If you live in New England, and have for many generations, there is a big possibility you are of Irish decent. Growing up in New England myself, with my porcelain skin, and freckles; I had many friends with the last name “Mc-somthing” or “O’something.” My maiden name is McGinnes, though it is of Scottish decent, it is still part of the "Mc" family, not something very common in the western states like Idaho where I live now. There are about three million Irish descendants in New England today [1] . America is the land of opportunity where many immigrants traveled overseas to live the “American dream” Have you ever wondered why so many people from Ireland immigrated to The United States of America? Let me explain to you why maybe some of your ancestors from Ireland came to the United States. Between 1845 and 1852 [2] Ireland was hit with a devastating disease which affected their potato crops, called the Irish Potato Famine. This disease was called Potato Blight [3] which
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Rhubin J Hill

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I wanted to share with you my latest project. I am down to my last classes until I graduate with my degree in Family History Research. By July of next year I will be ready to get Eleanor's Genealogy up and running as a business! In one of my classes called "Research Methodology Part 2" we do 6, 18 hour research projects every 2 weeks. Typically they give us a pretend client with a pretend problem. Such as, "so and so was born in 1850 in Rhode Island, here is the 1900 census return for them, find their marriage record, birth record, death record, their children parents, etc..." For this particular project we had to choose our own subject to research in our county we live in  so we could do on-site research instead of all online research that we typically do. I pulled up the 1900 United States Census for Bonneville County, (which was part of Bingham County until 1907 when they created Bonneville County) and I typed in the name "Hill" I have Hill family m
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Eleanor Ann

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Welcome to my new genealogy blog. I am starting my own research business called Eleanor's Genealogy. I would like to tell the story of who Eleanor is and why I chose the name. My great grandmother and great grandfather were Timothy J Buckley born 28 December 1897 in Rhode Island and Anna Mary Hennessey born 28 December 1906 in Providence, Rhode Island. Timothy and Anna (known as Ann, whom I get my middle name from) had three children. William J born  7 January 1931 in Providence, Rhode Island, My grandmother Lillian Marie born 19 November 1928 in Providence, Rhode Island, and their oldest child Eleanor Ann who was born 3 April 1926 in Providence Rhode Island. Eleanor Ann died at the young age of eleven in 1936 from a traumatic head injury. Eleanor was sliding down a slide, hit her head, and died from the injuries. My grandmother, Lillian Marie married my grandfather James Ambler McGinnes who was born 3 November 1921 in Greenville, Rhode Island. Together they had four children. Wi
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