Hurley's World

This is the death certificate of Matteo Cavo.

Registered No. 541
Address 200 South William St Ward 5
Full Name: Matthew Cavo
Residence: 200 South William St. 5 Ward

Length of residence: 35 years
How long in U.S. if of foreign birth: 35 years

Personal and Statistical Particulars:
Sex: Male
Color or Race: Italian
Married

Husband of Angelina St. George

Date of Birth: Sept 24, 1860
Age: 68 yrs 3 mos 7 ds

Occupation: Laborer
Employer: Louis Argenio

Birthplace: Modea, Italy

Name of Father: Frank Cavo
Birthplace of Father: Modea, Italy
Name of Mother: Philomenia Cavo

The marriage certificate of Louis Herzberger and Helene Rode.

25 Jan 1868
New York, NY

Groom: Louis Herzberg
Residence: 439 14 St
Age: 25
Occupation: Bookkeeper
Place of Birth: Germany
Father's Name: Saltherb? Herzberg
Mother's Maiden Name: Christiane Herzberg
No. of Groom's Marriage: 1
Name of Bride: Helene Rode
Residence: 439 14 St
Age: 23
Place of Birth: Germany
Father's Name: Johann H Rode
Mother's Maiden Name: Methe Rode

Witnesses:
H? Klemeyer
Anne Klemeyer

I've spent some time over the last week and a half updating the site. Since I needed to upgrade the version of the content management system anyway, I decided to give it a whole new look. Let me know what you think.

One really nice thing about the new version is that the search feature actually works. I'm still playing around with everything, but I will do my best not to break it.

The marriage certificate of William Herbert Puetz and Lena Klages.

Record No. 2715
I hereby certify that William Buetz and Lena Klages were joined in Marriage by me, in accordance with the Laws of the State of New York, in the City of Brooklyn, this 30 day of January 1897.

Witnesses:
Eugene Walsch
Emma Vondeck

Attest: W Walenta
Official Station: pastor
Residence 396 Graham St?

Of the Groom:
Name: William Puetz
Residence: 139 Bayard St
Age: 28
No of Marriage: 1
Occupation: Carpenter
Place of Birth: Germany
Father's Name: Wilh Herbert
Mother's Name: Apolonia Indien

Recently, I decided to see if I could find any siblings of John Donahoe, son of Cornelius Donahoe and Mary Deasy/Dacey. John is the father of my husband's great-great-grandmother Mary Donahoe. Mary was born about 1873 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, the daughter of John Donahoe and Eliza Field. John, her father, was born about 1840 in Ireland. By searching the Massachusetts vital records for Marlborough, between 1850 and 1880, I was able to identify a number of additional children of Cornelius and Mary.

This entry will cover the oldest child I found of Cornelius and Mary Donahoe.

While listening to the July 3rd podcast from The Genealogy Guys podcast, I got a great tip concerning census research. The creator of the Census Tools website (http://www.censustools.com) created a number of tools for extracting census data. These tools include Excel spreadsheet forms for a number of common research types including US censuses, US state censuses, international censuses, cemetery data, passenger manifests, family group sheets, research logs. In addition to the Excel spreadsheets, the website also has forms available in the pdf format.

Pics of my dad and me.

I added six more games to my website:

Digby's Donuts
Join Digby as he opens a chain of donut shops in major cities across the country!

Five Card Deluxe
If you like solitaire or poker then you'll love Five Card Deluxe! Place cards from the deck onto the table to form poker hands and score points.

Flip Words
The first letter of each word you make will be revealed in the phrase you're trying to solve. Guess the phrase and get a bonus!

Lucky Streak Poker
Casino style video poker with a fun twist: Lucky Streaks that improve your odds!

Puzzle Express
Grab the colorful puzzle pieces and place them together to fill up the train cars. The more you fill up the car, the more of the picture you get to see.

Trivia Machine
Climb to the top of the ladder by answering fun questions from the trivia machine.

Many people are commenting about the proposal made by Verizon, Bell South, and other companies demanding that Google pay telecoms money to ensure that users can view their premium content. Such premium content would undoubtedly include Google Video. Many of these same people are calling this a double-dip or a pure money grab, since home users are already paying for their access. However, what many of them fail to mention is that Verizon, and probably a few other telecom companies, are in the process of laying vasts amounts of fiber optic cable across the US, a rather costly proposition. So costly, in fact, that it's doubtful Verizon can afford to pay for these upgrades from subscriber fees alone.

A neat new tool recently entered beta. Called MyStickies, it allows users to add sticky notes to any web page. The key is installing a browser extension for your browser which enables you to view the stickies. If you're interested, sign up for an account at http://www.mystickies.com and give it a spin. Currently, the extension is only available for Firefox users.

Since the announcement of the beta just arrived on my desk(top), I haven't had a lot of time to think of great uses yet. However, I could see people getting a lot of use out of the product when doing all sorts of research, especially genealogy research.