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  • Nov11

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    For Veteran’s Day, I thought I’d post a WWII Navy photo of my Dad with a group of fellows (and a few lucky ladies) from his post in the Personnel Accounting Office’s Machine Records Installation located at 90 Church Street, Manhattan.

    Until recently I thought this photo was taken down in Washington, DC, where he was assigned at the beginning of his service. But recently I found a few alternate copies of this group photo, one of which has the NYC information written on the back.

    Thanks to all who have served our country.

    US Navy, Machine Records Installation, Church Street, NYC, Group Photo

    My father, Michael Tierney is in the rear row, right in front of the door.

  • Nov2

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    In a previous post on my great-grandfather, the New York City Municipal Policeman I included a photo comparison of an image from our family album and one from a page of the book “The New York Irish” that I believe to be him.

    Now, unprecedented in Tierney family research, I have updated that comparison with new and intriguing evidence. I leave you, dear reader, to form your own opinion of the great importance of this finding. Thank you and good night.

    Groundbreaking Tierney Comparison

    Yes. Yes, that is a Luigi hat, of Mario & Luigi fame I am wearing right there.

  • Oct29

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    Family Tree Photo GameSince today is a nice cold rainy day, I’ve set up a game to see how well the kids do putting together the family tree using family photos.
    I think there may be some Oreos ready for some prizes (and for the game leader.)

  • Oct17

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    Not much to describe on these photos – my grandfather John Tierney is the fellow on the left and I would guess this photo is circa 1920 or so. The man in the middle appears in some other photos and I suspect might be the husband of one of my grandfather’s sisters.

    Fire One!

    Fire Two!

  • Oct14

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    Calligraphy Genealogy ChartSurfing at lunch time today I happened across these two short videos on using calligraphy for genealogy charts – absolutely beautiful work.

    Calligraphy Genealogy Charts: Structure

    Calligraphy Genealogy Charts: Designs

    I did not see any links to the artist’s  site anywhere on eHow, but after some short googling I found her at Super Calligraphics

    (I originally had the two videos embedded here, but the eHow player apparently has no way to disable autoplay. Sounds and videos that play as soon as a page loads are a huge pet peeve of mine and I don’t want to annoy anyone else…)