A slightly fizzy collection of family history and travel notes from the Baothán files.
This is my working genealogy tree for the Keenan and McCarron lines, tracing migration from Monaghan to Scotland and then on to South Australia. I use it as a visual research map, with people, relationships, and source previews all kept in one place.
Open the treeThis page tells the story of how I worked out the identity of Eunice Keenan (nee Baverstock’s father. It is part family history and part detective story, pulling together memory, records, and DNA evidence to explain a mystery that sat in the family for years.
Read the storyThis is my travel file: an obsessive, map-rich record of a big multi-country trip. I built it as both planning tool and keepsake, with dates, routes, stays, transport, and the little details that make an itinerary feel like a real journey rather than a spreadsheet.
Enter the trip file