Sheridan
August 25, 2026
Bridget Sheridan was certainly from County Cavan — a single marriage certificate says so, and nothing more. This is the true story of how the paper trail dead-ended, and how DNA finally pointed to a corner of the county.
August 19, 2026
A run of Australian DNA matches led me to a woman my second great-grandfather may have been born beside. Her records name her parents; his name nobody. The matches carrying the connection were small — so I turned to BanyanDNA.
August 19, 2026
Before I ever loaded a chromosome browser, I chased Bridget Sheridan through paper — censuses, tithe books, valuations, and 354 Cavan Sheridans. Here is exactly what I did, and the wall it hit.
July 6, 2026
A single name at the bottom of Bridget’s marriage record — Anne Sheridan, witness. This is the FAN-club detective story of chasing her across Cavan and Massachusetts, rabbit holes included.
