KeatingSearch

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Long-time genealogist, focused on Keating, Shroyer, Pope, Migan, Hobbs, Shroyer, and Hammonds.

I run a Keating ONS through the Guild of One Name Studies and co-admin the Keating DNA Project at FamilyTreeDNA.com.

Who's in my avatar? That's my great-great-grandfather, John Charles Keating. He and his wife, Julia Hyland were my immigrant Keating ancestors. They left Ireland in 1854 on the barque Vierge Marie (also pictured), shipwrecked off of Long Island, and settled in western Maryland.

https://www.KeatingSearch.com/https://www.KeatingSearch.com/
Keating DNA Projecthttps://www.familytreedna.com/groups/keating/about
Guild of One Name Studieshttps://one-name.org/
AncestryDNA Profilehttps://www.ancestry.com/account/profile/00c16a67-0001-0000-0000-000000000000https://www.ancestry.com/account/profile/00c16a67-0001-0000-0000-000000000000

Bernard A. “Bunny” Keating

April 5, 1935  -  January 3, 2026 Bernard A. “Bunny” Keating, 90, of Hagerstown, MD passed away on Saturday, January 3, 2026 at Meritus Medical Center in Hagerstown, MD. Bernard was born on April 5, 1935 in Cumberland, MD to the late Thomas Patrick and Margaret Ann (Lorditch) Keating. He was a graduate of LaSalle High School in Cumberland, MD before enlisting in the U.S Army and serving during the Korean War.

https://www.keatingsearch.com/2026/01/05/bernard-a-bunny-keating/

Bernard A. “Bunny” Keating

April 5, 1935  –  January 3, 2026 Bernard A. “Bunny” Keating, 90, of Hagerstown, MD passed away on Saturday, January 3, 2026 at Meritus Medical Center in Hagerstown, MD. Bernard was born on A…

KeatingSearch Journal

A New Oldest Keating Family?

A recent new member to the FTDNA Keating Project signed up for the Y-700 test and the updated results arrived this week. Since the preliminary (STR-based) results were a near match to my own, we were both quite interested in what the SNP-based test results would indicate and were hopeful that the results would show a common ancestor within a documentable period, say… within a hundred or so years before our respective ancestors immigrated to…

https://www.keatingsearch.com/2025/10/25/a-new-oldest-keating-family/

Researching, writing and submitting these - including dealing with all the *fun* of peer review - as a sole author is *interesting*. But something I enjoy, and will keep doing for as long as I can.

Google is now officially a fascist tool, as its contemptible "Gulf of America" change shows -- and as removing progressive events from the calendar shows.

You MUST expect now that Google will gladly hand over your most personal information to the Trump regime or anyone the regime likes.

You never could trust Google, once it became an advertising company. You must now assume it is your likely enemy.

I’m curious how the average American needs to be impacted for them to recognize the situation we’re in?

Would it be missed social security checks? Unpaid Medicare bills? Lost jobs? Extensive food lines?

Or does it have to make it all the way to US troops on American streets?

It is once again time to give thanks to Brian Fox, the Black American programmer that has given us BASH and echo! Thank you for your INCREDIBLE contributions to open source software, Unix, and Linux. It literally would not be the same without you. BASH is still absolutely foundational to all computing today. Happy Black History Month to an absolute icon!

#bash #bashscript #echo #foss #linux #unix #BlackHistoryMonth #gnu

I’m reminded that someone complaining about “open borders” is really the speaker announcing themselves as a racist bigot.

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This morning I became an orphan. Rest in peace, Mom.