Saint Aloysius Church - 1893 - Littlestown, Adams County, Pennsylvania
Photograph and obituary courtesy Google Books, "History of Saint Aloysius Church of Littlestown, Penna." by William McSherry, Jr., published 1893
Louisa McSherry Long, my husband's 3rd great-aunt. She was born February 1816 and died May 06, 1891. Louisa was sister to husband's 2nd great grandmother, Sarah Matilda McSherry Starr.
In the above obituary we learn many important facts about Louisa:
- gentleness of manner
- married young plasterer, Andrew Long
- was a seamstress
- lost many young children during her lifetime
- faithful in her religion
- came from old and respected stock
- father, Andrew McSherry
- mother, Eve Norbeck
- married in 1844
- was Catholic
- died May 6, 1871 at the age of 75
Searching Google Books has become a weekly research task. Creating Google Alerts for each surname. These can answer questions, give clues and flesh out the lives of our ancestors. Important fact from this obituary, first confirmation for Louisa and Sarah's parents. I can now go back another generation.
Information about and using Google Books:
Google Books from Wikipedia: "is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and in its digital database".
Google Books for Family History (YouTube) by Genealogy TV
How To Find & Use Google Books For Genealogy Research ~ post from Are You My Cousin? blog
Cheat Sheet: Google Alerts for Google by Thomas MacEntee, Abundant Genealogy
No comments:
Post a Comment