McLaughlins of Brooklyn

I've been putting on WeRelate information on two Mclaughlin families in Brooklyn that I am sure must be related. One family is that of Hugh "Boss" McLaughlin, a Brooklyn politico of the second half of the nineteenth century. The other, to which I know I am related, is the family of Henry McLaughlin, one of whose descendants was George Vincent McLaughlin, a banker, who was Police Commissioner of NYC for a short while under Mayor Walker. I am hoping that someone can make a connection.

I also added some information about the Kilcommons family. I had been told that Mary Kilcommons, who was born in Jersey City in 1903, had married a Weinberg. Using the SSDI, I found that she married Gilbert Whinberg.

I am hoping that more people start using WeRelate so that mistakes can be corrected easily. I am annoyed when I see a pedigree on Ancestry.com with a child born before the supposed parent, and the most you can do is put a post-it noting that fact.

WeRelate.org

A few months ago I discovered WeRelate.org, a wiki type web site that allows collaboration in doing genealogy. I have already connected my Donnelly line with some Donnellys who were already on there. I have contacted some of the people with whom I share ancestry and asked them to consider participating. I am still working on the fine points, and I am adding people individually, and not just uploading a Gedcom file, so that I can check my work as I go along. I have added information for most of the families I am working on: Curley, McEnery, Connolly, Donnelly, McLaughlin, Kilcommons, and several others.