{"id":361,"date":"2019-01-03T10:02:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hanniganfamilytree.us\/wp\/?p=361"},"modified":"2019-01-04T10:03:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T15:03:39","slug":"how-big-is-the-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hanniganfamilytree.us\/wp\/archives\/361","title":{"rendered":"How big is the tree?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One interesting thing about doing family history research is the idea of finding out all you can. Sometimes it can become too overwhelming with the amount of information we now have at our fingertips. But, the important questions is about who do you do research?<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Let’s face it! We all start with two parents and four grandparents – except in blended types of families that is.\u00a0 And the number doubles as you move further back in generations.\u00a0 These are your direct ancestors and they appear pretty slim.\u00a0 Granted if you go back far enough, the number of people gets quite large.<\/p>\n

But what about those other people.\u00a0 You know the ones I mean.\u00a0 You aunts and uncles. And don’t forget about your cousins. What about your spouse and their family. And the tree grows.<\/p>\n

All of these people are important and digging back far enough might provide a link that was not previously discovered.\u00a0 Allow me to explain.<\/p>\n

For years of research I knew there had to be more children than my great-great-grandfather, Patrick Hannigan.\u00a0 We knew he was from Ireland and once we found his head stone at Saint Raymond’s Cemetery, we found out he was from County Limerick, Ireland.\u00a0 But where in County Limerick?\u00a0 We searched for clues, but kept coming up empty.<\/p>\n

Then Jerry came along.\u00a0 Jerry was from a line of Hannigan’s that located on Staten Island.\u00a0 Jerry’s great-great-grandfather was Michael Hannigan and I had seen Michael listed on Patrick’s Naturalization paperwork.\u00a0 Were they related?\u00a0 Pat was listed as the best man (or witness) for Michael’s wedding in Ireland.\u00a0 Time to build a bigger tree.<\/p>\n

After exchanging several emails, we realized that we were connecting to siblings that came from Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s face it! We all start with two parents and four grandparents – except in blended types of families that is. And the number doubles as you move further back in generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-jchannigan","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-361","7":"format-standard","8":"has-post-thumbnail","9":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanniganfamilytree.us\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanniganfamilytree.us\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanniganfamilytree.us\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanniganfamilytree.us\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanniganfamilytree.us\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hanniganfamilytree.us\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/hanniganfamilytree.us\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanniganfamilytree.us\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanniganfamilytree.us\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanniganfamilytree.us\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanniganfamilytree.us\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}