A Coogan Family of County Monaghan
2007 -More input from Pat Connor Coogan, Elizabeth McGovern Herskovitz on all 'sibling lines.' -Visited National Archives in Washington, DC - researched 1930 US Census. 2006 -More input from Iola Hennebry, Chicone Fox on all 'sibling lines.' -Visited Montreal (QC, Canada) and Provincial Archives. Found earliest records of our Coogan family in North America. -Y-DNA: Confirmed link between Terrence "Farmer" and Owen "Trader" using FamilyTreeDNA.com 2005 -More input from Iola Hennebry, Michael Thuesen, Goldie Kolar Smith, Elizabeth Herskovitz on all 'sibling lines.' -Web Pages: Moved website to new server hosted by BlueHost.com. 2004 -More input from Pat Connor Coogan, Frank Ruse, Jackie Dougherty King, James McCusker, James B. Coogan on all 'sibling lines.' -Visited San Diego Public Library - searched California Great Register of Voters. -Web Pages: COOGAN RESEARCH GROUP - Site hits 200 researchers on 26 August. 2003 -More input from Pat Connor Coogan, Candace Finfrock, Sharron McCusker, Brendan Dougherty on all 'sibling lines.' -Visited Boston Public Library - searched Boston Globe and Boston Herald obituary indexes. -Internet: Success with Historical New York Times website. Success with Brooklyn Daily Eagle index website. 2002 -More input from Pat Connor Coogan, Iola Hennebry, Mark Cygler, Bill Sheeley, Frank Sheeley, Tamara Quesenberry, Candace Finfrock on all 'sibling lines.' -Visited Sutro Library in San Francisco, CA - researched City Directories from Boston, Brooklyn, Cambridge, NYC. -Visited St. Louis County Library in St. Louis, MO - researched in 1870, 1900, 1920 US Census. -LDS: Researched Personal Ancestral Files. 2001 -Continued interviews. -Input from Pat Connor Coogan, Iola Hennebry, Mark Cygler, Bill Sheeley, Christine Coogan Bagliani, Colleen Coogan Collins, Kristina Hughes, Evelyn Miller, Frank Sheeley, Tamara Quesenberry on all 'sibling lines.' -Visited Kingston, NY - photographed quarries in Hurley, cemetery plots of Sheeley family. -Mail: Saint Joseph's RC Church: Requested baptism records. -Web Pages: COOGAN RESEARCH GROUP - Site hits 100 researchers on 25 January. 2000 -Continued interviews. -Input from Pat Connor Coogan, Iola Hennebry, Mark Cygler, Bill Sheeley on all 'sibling lines.' -Visited Samford University in Birmingham, AL - researched Tithe Applotment Records (Monaghan, Armagh). -Visited National Archives in Washington, DC - researched in 1900, 1920 US Census and New York City Directories. -Visited Library of Congress in Washington, DC - researched City Directories from Boston, Cambridge, Brooklyn, Kingston. -Visited Massachusetts State Archives in Dorchester, MA - researched vital records, Boston City Directories, Mormon Microfilm of Boston (Death Certificates). -Visited Elting Memorial Library in New Paltz, NY - researched Kingston City Directories. -Visited Kingston, NY - photographed COOGAN stones in St. Mary's RC Cemetery in Kingston. Also visited Patrick Joseph Coogan's inn in North Front Street. -LDS: Researched Brooklyn City Directories, Rhode Island Vital Records. -Mail: Kingston Library: Requested Obituaries. -Internet: Success at Ancestry.com - had great success with digital records and Scanned Census records. -Web Pages: COOGAN RESEARCH GROUP - added automated mailing list with ListBot.com, added site search feature with FreeFind.com, added statistical counter with TheCounter.com. Site hits 1000 visitors on 13 February. First successful Yahoo! search. 1999 -Continued interviews. -Visited Massachusetts State Archives in Dorchester, MA - researched vital records, Boston City Directories, Mormon Microfilm of Boston (Death Certificates). -Visited Samford University in Birmingham, AL - researched Griffith's Valuation (Roscommon). -LDS: Success with Vital Record CDs. -Internet: Success at FamilySearch - found great great grandparents (GOODMAN line). Success at GenForum - met a third cousin in my PERRY line. -Web Pages: Learned HTML program language to improve web pages. Split project into two pages - COOGAN RESEARCH GROUP and A COOGAN Family of County Monaghan. Created mailing list to connect COOGAN researchers. 1998 -Continued interviews. -Visited National Archives in Washington, DC - researched in 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920 US Census as well as immigration records. -Visited Massachusetts State Archives in Dorchester, MA - researched vital records, Boston City Directories. -Web Pages: Created web page using Ultimate Family Tree software and AOL Personal Publisher. 1997 ***Research on COOGANs on hold. Traveled to Italy to conduct research on my other main family - IPPOLITO. 1996 -Continued interviews. -Discovered a cousin who was also researching my COOGAN family - she provided me with data on NY COOGANs and more Roxbury, MA COOGANs. -Internet: Opened America Online account - no luck with internet genealogy due to sub-standard computer. 1995 -Continued interviews. -Discovered a cousin in Montreal who had data from that city on COOGAN family - she sent 1861, 1871, 1881 CANADA Census data to me. -Visited Latter Day Saints (LDS) Family History Library for the first time. -Discovered Social Security Death Index. 1994 -Continued interviews. -Visited Samford University in Birmingham, AL - researched Tithe Applotment Records (Monaghan) and Griffith's Valuation (Monaghan). 1993 -Continued interviews. -Traveled to visit my two great uncles in NM - they knew a lot about the COOGANs in Roxbury, MA and mentioned the MCCLIMONT family of NY. 1992 -Began data collection. -Main sources of information: my father, my grandmother, and my great aunt.
|