Google has added a new Search By Image function to their standard images search that looks like it will give good old Tineye Reverse Image Search a run for their money.
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Jun16
No CommentsNew Google Search By Image
Posted in: Photo, Technology
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Jun15
Patently on a Roll
Posted in: Fun
In my regular searches for Tierneys in New York in the late 1800s and early 1900s I stumbled upon this tidbit.
Apparently a circa 1903 John J. Tierney patented this wonderful design for an updated toilet paper holder.
I do not know of any familial connection, but if I find one I’M GONNA BE RICH!
Ah, probably not.
You may read the full and complete patent here, if you are in need of some reading material. Ahem.
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Jun13
My Lilac Inheritance
Posted in: Czech, Photo
This is a photo of my great-grandparents Bozena and Vaclav Simanek and their children at their home in Předmíř, Czechoslovakia, circa 1915 (give or take a few years.) My grandmother Marie (known as Babi to us grandkids) is the oldest, standing in the rear row, center.
Simanek Family Home in Předmíř. Rear row: Antonin, Vaclav, Marie (my Babi), Bozena, Joseph. Front row: Rose, Mother Bozena, Jaroslav, Father Vaclav, Jan
I have seen this photo several times over the years, but it was not until I scanned it that I realized all of the children were holding lilacs. Many years after she had emigrated to New York, Babi had planted several lilac bushes at their summer bungalow in upstate New York. They are one of my favorite flowers in both appearance and scent – we planted some Japanese lilacs in our yard that I look forward to each spring.
I suppose that love of lilacs may go further back than I realized.
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Jun1
Cousindipity
Posted in: Ruminations, Serendipity
Last year I was lucky to get reconnected to several first cousins that we hardly knew about, much less met.
The short short version of the story is that my grandfather John Tierney (sounds familiar) married Sabina Gilroy and had four children. Sadly, he lost his wife and 3 year old Winifred in the 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic in New York.
Tierney Siblings: Michael, Sabina and John, Jamaica Queens, 1929
The next year he married my grandmother May and several years later they had my father. By all accounts their marriage was stormy and not good for the kids. After my grandfather died in 1935 the family drifted apart and my father apparently had very little contact with his brother and two sisters. (All half siblings to him.)
More than a dozen years ago I started to get interested in genealogy, but worked at it sporadically. However, I kept adding to my findings and kept them on an Ancestry tree that was discovered last year by my father’s brother’s grandson’s wife. (Got that?) Read More | Comments
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May30
Memorial Day, LI National Cemetery
Posted in: Photo
Visiting Grandpa Mike on Memorial Day
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As I have discovered more evidence of my family’s immigrations and documentation of their lives, I have become entranced by the idea that while we live in different times we often travel similar paths. Read More
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