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Category: McHugh Line

Entries related to my maternal McHugh line

One Little Boy’s Mother

December 31, 2020 - 2:21 pm January 2, 2021Discoveries, McHugh Line, Polish Ancestry, Research Cemetery, Koscielec, Leszczyce, Maciejczak, Poland, Polish, Poznan, Prussia

Digging through archives from the early 1800s in rural Poland reveals a sad tale.

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Finding a Way to Ludzisko, or Where is That?

October 24, 2020 - 3:15 pm October 26, 2020Discoveries, McHugh Line, News, Polish Ancestry, Research Catholic, Maciejczak, Maps, Maternal line, Mieszynka, Poland, Poznan, Prussia, Tomaszewski

It took a Polish researcher and lots of studying the ever-changing borders of Polish and Prussian geography, to locate the tiny farmlands of my great-grandfather’s early days.

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Breaking the Polish Barrier

September 12, 2020 - 3:44 pm October 25, 2020Discoveries, McHugh Line, News, Polish Ancestry, Research 1700s, Archives, GreatGrandparents, marriage, Poland, Poznan, Prussia, Wisniewski

After years of stagnated research, one site has opened up a whole new path to generations past.

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Grandmothers of Ireland

May 16, 2020 - 5:24 pm October 25, 2020Discoveries, Irish Ancestry, McHugh Line, Research Ballinagleragh, birth, Chicago, County Leitrim, death, Derrinwillin, Flynn, Ireland, marriage, Maternal line, McHugh, Sranagarvanagh

A search for a grandfather leads to learning about my grandmothers.

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The Life Stories

March 15, 2020 - 10:22 pm October 25, 2020Irish Ancestry, McHugh Line, News Chicago, First generation, Grandfather, Irish, Maternal line, McHugh

On an earlier version of this website, I had started accumulating some personal stories and biographies of my ancestors. I’ve added a page for this purpose, which I’ll add to over time. The first tale is that of my maternal grandfather, John McHugh. He’s the son of Irish immigrants, the…

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