Time to Write: Hold Everything!

My mother’s family has been the focus of my genealogy recently. My editor, my daughter Alyssa J Pasquale & I have spent long hours fine-tuning the book I am writing about the family. My daughter has made my research look very professional.

Yesterday I went off to Staples to get the 364 pages printed out. I work better with printed pages than images on my laptop screen. I have been going through, page by page finding little things (punctuation & capitalization) we missed as we went through it the dozen times before.

Then I was reading the obituary for my great great grandfather, Patrick Coyle. In reading the list of survivors my great grandfather, Michael Coyle, was shown in Texas. I have not discovered what happened to Michael after he left his wife & children. I thought I’d look once again.

No, I did not solve a big mystery. I still do not know when or where he died. However, I did find Michael and family in a census report I had not found before.

The 1915 New York State Census, NY, NY, AD 28, ED9; ancestry.com

Michael Coyle family living at 2033 Third Avenue

Michael, WM 44 b Ireland; citizen, in USA for 28 years; Baker

Mary, wife, WF 44 b Ireland; citizen, in USA for 20 years; house keeping

Helen, dau WF 18; b USA; high school

Marion, dau WF 15; b USA; school;

Margaret, dau WF 13; b USA; school

Tom, son WM 11; school

Lillian WF 3

If you hear loud noises coming from Illinois, don’t worry. It is just my editor daughter learning we have to make more changes to the book!