2025 January

30 January 2025:- Total 51,537 including living.  Hunting some Hugh Dowlings in Liverpool to attach to the USA... A likely candidate but missing a crucial piece of information so cannot join as yet.  Will put them separately into the system tomorrow.

29 January 2025:- Total 51,522 including living. A lot of looking and not finding and I have now come to a very thinly evidenced conclusion on a Maryland to Washington family.  This is one of those occasions where it is pointing to Thomas's father as being Hugh but not one direct document linking the two directly... I'll sleep on this one!

28 January 2025:- Total 51,512 including living.  More Find a Grave and census entries in Washington DC, USA.  Found George Brackett Dowling who was a Rear Admiral in the US Navy... that's really very high up but so little is online about him.

27 January 2025:- Total 51,494 including living.  More Find a Grave entries in USA.

26 January 2025:- Total 51,482 including living.  Sunday Single Back Up.  Some Find a Grave entries only.  Fixing central heating - Sunday, during a storm could it have picked a more awkward day to go wrong!

25 January 2025:- Total 51,472 including living. More in Washington, connecting some Find a Grave entries to the census entries.  Very busy with non genealogy these few days.

24 January 2025:- Total 51,468 including living. More in Washington DC.  I found some Find a Grave entries.

22 January 2025:- Total 51,466 including living.  More on the Washington family with more to come.  Not well today and other things to do.  Had an idea of responding only to corrections of any errors from my 70th birthday onwards...  what do you think?

21 January 2025:- Total 51,453 including living.  Another US family in Washington DC.  Had a heart stress test today, they said it was ok but I feel rough now!

20 January 2025:- Total 51,441 including living.  One census entry.  Busy day with non-genealogy in particular my tax return... I find the language of tax so confusing this becomes an annual depression inducing requirement and its not as if I am rolling in money!  Updated the website builder software and started on updating the Clonreher Castle pages.

19 January 2025:- Total 51,440 including living.  Sunday Single Back Up.  Mostly sources for existing people in Maryland.

18 January 2025:- Total 51,437 including living.  Mostly sources for existing people.  One of those days where one has no clue where the time went... more of these as I get older!

17 January 2025:- Total 51,428 including living.  Another branch of the Maryland line.  A curious issue apparent on the 1900 census is the wife shown as a widow while, as far as I can see, her husband is in the penitentiary.   Now, of course, my curiosity is piqued as to what the offence was!

16 January 2025:- Total 51,422 including living.  Some Kent in England and then more in Maryland USA.  Not the same as actual travelling but I get about a good bit.

15 January 2025:- Total 51,412 including living.  Mostly tidying up old sources, these are often Ancestry sources that were automatically added that essentially say nothing about where information came from other than 'Ancestry'.  So I refurbish them with a little more detail... an ongoing project that allows me to revisit 'cold cases'.

14 January 2025:- Total 51,405 including living. Mostly sources for existing people today... and not getting James back to Ireland... maybe one day.  A few source refurbishments and a re-processing of website images to deal with filename changes... that took a while.

13 January 2025:- Total 51,399 including living.  Rhode Island focus in the early censuses.  This James Dowling is born in Ireland but I can see it will be tricky to get further back than 1850.

12 January 2025:- Total 51,381 including living.  Sunday Single Back Up.  More from Florida and Rhode Island.  Some checked Find a Grave's and census sources.

11 January 2025:- Total 51,367 including living.  A family from Florida and Rhode Island added... some more tomorrow.

10 January 2025:- Total 51,358 including living. Hunting for someone and not finding.  Not a lot to show for today.  Temperature at 5 degrees below zero but still went for a walk,

9 January 2025:- Total 51,353 including living.   Find a Grave is normally very good as entries are made by families but today I found an incorrect paternal link of a Dowling to someone who was not his son.  I have sent a message and it is good learning.

8 January 2025:- Total 51,349 including living.  Some Find a Grave entries added in Maryland area.  Had another look for the Dowling wristwatch manufacturers, believed to be in Colorado, to no avail.

7 January 2025:- Total 51,338 including living. Some more source enhancement to rather shallow old Ancestry references.  Some additions from Maryland.  Mostly tidying away Christmas decorations... chopping up the Christmas tree for recycling.  I do like recycling, it seems worthwhile.

6 January 2025:- Total 51,335 including living. Added no new people but spent some time refurbishing some old sources.

5 January 2025:- Total 51,335 including living.  Sunday Single Back Up. A few more to unravel some 1920's Maryland Dowlings… looking at the Irish side tomorrow if I get time.

4 January 2025:- Total 51,325 including living.  Still in Maryland putting in more sources for a connection to Kerry.  Quite a conundrum on finding the maiden names of some Dowling wives... USA sources are quite sparse on births and marriages.

3 January 2025:- Total 51,302 including living.  Still in Maryland putting in more sources for a connection to Kerry.

2 January 2025:- Total 51,285 including living.  Exploring a Maryland family I had looked at many years ago making very scant notes.  I may have been busy working but will now give it the full treatment.

1 January 2025:- Total 51,277 including living.  Monthly Double Back Up.  Some tidying of sources with peripheral additions.  Happy New Year to all... a bit wet and stormy here in the UK!

29 December 2024:- Total 51,272 including living. Sunday Single Back Up.  Mostly tidying Sources after yesterday's work.