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Articles

This section contains both articles written by the Research Committee as well as those we've collected.

Research Committee Articles

• Article "What a Difference A Year Makes", describing early work by the Research Committee on uncovering information on our Danbury ancestors.

• So Just When Was Margaret Scollin Born (or didn't people back then know when they were born?)

• Who were Lizzie and Maggie McDonald and how were they related to us?

• So Just When Did The Shalvoys Come To America?

• Frank, son of Owen  

• So Whatever Happened To Owen's Sister Jane?

• Sy Culhane and the Deity of All Parking

• Everything You Wanted To Know About The Census But Were Afraid To Ask

• Overview of Missouri John Scollin's Family

• Did Bridget Shalvoy's Children Have Children Of Their Own? 

• Article on Irish Ages, or didn't ANY of our ancestors know how old they were!  Or could at least remember how old they thought they were from one year to the next!

• Fun With Irish Names, or "Just How Many Ways Can One Spell Shalvoy?"

• Finding Your Ancestors in Ireland 

• So Just What was Henry Scollin's Year of Death?

• Debbie Sims Pictures of Leonard Keating

• Corrine's Memory of Nellie DeLury 

• The Scollin Families in Danbury CT

• The Shalvoys Were Hatters 

Articles Written By Others

• The History of Danbury - from a sermon by the Rev. Thomas Robbins, delivered Jan. 1, 1801.  

• Newspaper Article - James J. Shalvoy contribution to Contributors Corner - Write Goes Back Memory Lane 

• Newspaper Article on the Danbury Hatters' Union - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4

• Transcription of the Danbury Locals Celebrate 100th Anniversary article from the April 15, 1951 issue of The Hat Worker :  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.  

• Newspaper Article on Owen's and Margaret's 50th Wedding Anniversary  

• A Boy Drowned, an article describing the death of Henry T. Scollin.

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