My official title as Family Historian aka the Irish Family Ancestry Detective officially started in 2013 or maybe even earlier than that?!?!

Back in 2014, during a wonderful evening with Uncle Bill and his partner Jeff, I asked Bill if he had any family photos to share. Indeed he did and from his storage area below their condo in San Francisco, brought up a large zippered bag that once contained a blanket. Inside this bag were loads of photos, papers etc all unsorted inherited from Great Aunt Evelyn after her passing in 2000.  

After attending a play in the city, Bill and Jeff dropped me off with the bag late in the evening. The next day being Easter, I had plans to get up early to clean house before my parents came over. Our plans was to celebrate Mom's birthday with drinks and then go out to dinner.

HOWEVER curiosity of what exactly was in this bag 😉got the best of me. Opening it up while trying not to let out screams (lest I wake up the neighbors) I came across so many wonderful, rare and amazing gems!  There were tons of photos and documentation that I had never seen before including this gem below.





















































Yes that's right everyone, I was doing family ancestry research at an early age and didn't even know it!  I have no memory of when I might have done this but it had to have been in the mid 1970's!  Perhaps, a middle school project at the time when any school report was written in ink not typed.
 
What I do find amazing is that this little two page bio on Great Grandma Nell had now come full circle! Great Grandma Nell kept it until her death. Then it was passed down to Grandma Barbara, to her sister Evelyn and then found among Uncle Bill's collection of family photos and documents! So fun too, to see too all the X's and O's at then end.😁

Stay safe and be well!
Linda- the Irish Family Ancestry Detective