S5E28 - Reinvention
Everett Ward Gardiner's life began in scandal, wandered through shame and reinvention, and ended in dignity. http://oconnor.home.blog
Hand Me Down
Hand Me Down is my podcast of history and family stories. The goal of this series is to tell some of the stories of my family in the context of the history in which those stories occurred. It’s part genealogy and part history that I hope you’ll enjoy. Visit the website at http://oconnor.home.blog
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S5E27 - Stockton State
A finish to the story of my great‑grandfather, Thomas O’Connor — a man whose life began hopefully in Ireland, endured immigration, hard work, three marriages, and ended during the Great Depression in a place few families ever talk about openly: Stockton State Hospital, one of California’s largest mental institutions. His story is not an easy one. But it is deeply human. And like so many family…
S5E26 - A Baseball Life
This episode centers on the baseball life of my grandfather Gerald Desmond and the baseball scrapbook he kept as a child from 1906 to about 1914. http://oconnor.home.blog
S4E25 - Marble and Stained Glass
A statue and windows in our parish church in Sacramento make a connection to ancestors on both sides of my family. Episode link
S4E24 - Ghosted
My great-grandfather migrates from Nebraska to Colorado and on to California during the 1920s, leaving a great deal behind in his wake. Episode Link
S3E23 - On This Christmas Day
I thought it would be worth remembering my great-grandfather on this 100th anniversary of his passing. Episode Link
S3E22 - The Victim
In 1898, my 2X great-grandfather Baldwin Gardiner was shot and killed after a botched robbery and a daring chase over San Francisco rooftops. Episode Link
S2E21 - Working on the Railroad
In this episode, I take a look at my family’s relationship to one of the major industries that employed several of my ancestors – the railroads. Episode link
S1E20 - The Cure
With COVID raging and the current occupant of the White House suggesting wild cures, I look back into my family tree where a not-so-reliable treatment scam figured into the life of one of my third great-grandfathers in 1830s Jacksonian America. Episode link
S1E19 - Pandemic
In this episode, as I shelter-in-place under the coronavirus epidemic, I look into how some of my ancestors endured the Influenza Epidemic of 1918. Episode link