23 episodes
Hand Me Down Gerald O'Connor
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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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S3E23 - On This Christmas Day
I thought it would be worth remembering my great-grandfather on this 100th anniversary of his passing. More at oconnor.home.blog.
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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. More at oconnor.home.blog.
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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. More at oconnor.home.blog.
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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. More at oconnor.home.blog.
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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. More at oconnor.home.blog.
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S1E18 - The Worst Season
In this episode, a great-uncle endures drought and hardship on a Dakota farm once part of the territory of the Lakota Sioux that was broken up and sold under the Dawes Act of 1887. More at oconnor.home.blog.