While conducting my extensive 10+ year search to break down the mystery of my 2nd-great-grandfather John O'Brien's siblings placed in the care of the Sisters of Charity convent in La Salle, Illinois, I used a variety of sources, primarily focusing on Agnes Atherton O'Brien. I'm placing this here as a reminder and potential guide in case I build a proposed talk for Rootstech 2026. I used these sources to write her obituary in October 2023.
US Census Records
- 1860 US Census in La Salle County, Illinois (2 years old in the Sisters of Charity convent)
- 1880 US Census in Hancock, Houghton, Michigan (actress)
- 1910 US Census in Cincinnati, Ohio
Marriage and Divorce Records
- Indiana Marriage Record (Marion County) - 20 October 1881
- Davidson County, Tennessee divorce decree - 24 September 1887 (via the Metro Archives in Nashville)
- Michigan Marriage Records (witness, 27 November 1883 in Wayne County, Michigan), via Ancestry
Newspapers
- Newspapers.com - extensive newspaper articles and advertisements mentioning Agnes performing throughout the United States and Canada between the late 1870s until her death in 1910.
- GenealogyBank
- Illinois Digital Newspaper Archive
- Internet Archive (Billboard magazine, 1914)
- Quebec Newspapers, banq.qc.ca (1890 and 1906 tours in Canada)
- New York State Historic Newspapers collection
- FamilySearch Full-text search
Death Records
- Cook County, Illinois Deaths Index (Ancestry)
- Findagrave
- Mount Carmel Cemetery, Chicago (via Catholic Cemeteries of Chicago website)
Trans-Mississippi International Exhibition website (see blog post from September 2023) for photo by Frank Rinehart from Kirchner's German Village
American Vaudeville Museum archives
I also inquired with the La Salle County Genealogy Society, and wrote to the Diocese of Peoria about the Sisters of Charity and Saint Patrick's Parish in La Salle, Illinois.
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