Kilcommons of Monmouth County, NJ

Moving some old files of mine I came upon a 1992 letter from Edna Ball who said that "His [our great-grandfather Daniel Kilcommons] family did not settle in New York, and later, Pennsylvania, as he did. His family settled in Freehold and Matawan. The (our) family did not keep in contact with them."

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.