• The Baron Scherer Chapel

    By Published On: November 24th, 2009Categories: Surname: Baron, Tombstone Tuesday

    The Baron Scherer Chapel The Baron Scherer Chapel (“The Chapel on the Hill”) is located in the Bellevue Cedar Hill Memory Gardens in Daytona Beach. Fl. Karen Szczeniak, the volunteer Find-A Grave photographer who took the pictures, called the Chapel grand and impressive.  She says the chapel is in generally good condition but has some

  • Looking For The Dillons

    By Published On: November 17th, 2009Categories: On The Genealogy Trail, Surname: Beattie, Surname: Dillon

    On April 27, 1893, a Francis Dillon was buried in a plot at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY.  On  December 16, 1897, he was removed from that original plot and moved to the Beattie family plot. I was easily able to find the death certificate for  Francis Dillon, who died April 23, 1893 and

  • Two New Photo’s Indicate Two Tierney Branches Knew Each Other!

    By Published On: November 10th, 2009Categories: Surname: Tierney

    The other day I found two photographs that seem to link two branches of the Tierney family together. The pictures come from the collection of Frank Noel and May (Berry) Tierney who lived in Larchmont, New York.  Frank Noel Tierney  and Raymond A Tierney were first cousins, so it makes sense that they new of