Author: Betty Gibbs

I didn’t know either of Anne’s two sisters. I remember her talking about them, but don’t remember anything she said about them. I also remember her talking about Blanche, her brother John’s wife. I am putting together their stories from letters and facts found on Family Search. I have some newspaper social notes about them.… Read more

I have started going through letters and using ChatGPT to transcribe them. The letters reveal more information about the families that are not found in public records. Examples: Many other letters tell other stories and hopefully will answer questions that fill in the rest of the story. There is much more to learn! I made… Read more

Anne Johnson sent a note to her son Victor on April 26, 1959. She identified a picture of Mathew DeCourcy as her mother’s brother, not her mother’s father as I had assumed. The original of the picture had Mathew DeCourcy on the back. I made the assumption it was Mathew Hare Decourcy, Elizabeth DeCourcy’s father.… Read more

The John DeCourcy Lawless is as finished as I can make it at this time. I have gathered information from Uncle Victor’s records as well as from FamilySearch and FindAGrave. Uncle Victor’s was last updated about 1975, so marriages and deaths come from other sources. John’s story has been a challenge because there were a… Read more

I am finding out all sorts of things about the John DeCourcy Lawless family while I am working on his story. There are quite a few still pictures that are being incorporated into the story. John was Grandma Johnson’s brother. He married Blanche and they had 3 children. The first was Mary Eileen – she had 10 children.… Read more