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If your name is McCollor, McCollough,
or McCollar, you may very possibly be descended from the brothers Edward and Patrick, who emigrated from County Tyrone, Ireland,
in the early nineteenth century, settling in Quebec, Canada, and in Maine, USA until some traveled west. Welcome to our site,
we hope you find it interesting, and if you are able to contribute additional information, corrections of data, photographs
or documents, we very much welcome your participation. EMAIL your comments and materials to me, Áine Irene MacCollar.
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4/21/2012 - I have re-worked
the family lineage charts page to give it a little more interesting a look and have added a Teresa McCollor DeVoll family
page accessible through a link on the Phineas McCollor family branch page. 4/17/2012 - Made some more changes (YES! I'm working on the site again.) I
completed a "family page" for Lester Earle Walker, son of John McCollor on the Phineas McCollor family tree branch.
I have also done some spot work elsewhere on the site and began a little more work on the DeVoll family branch, again on the
Phineas page. You will note that some of the pages on the site are graphically "challenged". These pages
await my attention, currently residing in limbo, somewhere between what they used to look like and what they eventually look
like. Thanks for your understanding and patience while I begin work again. An
update on my physical condition, as some of you so nicely showed your concern. All is much better, they downgraded my
"cancer" to stage 0 (would you believe there is a stage 0?! I never knew) Basically, as I understand it and
in my own words, there are several areas in the lobes of my milk duct system in each breast where there are "cells gone
wild", misbehaving shamefully but not organized into a tumor or "lump" and not invading beyond the walls of
the lobes. I hope I got that right. While we have to keep a very close eye on it, my chances of developing invasive
breast cancer in the future are 1 in 4, for the time being it does not warrant any special treatment. I'm feeling great, just
trying to find enough hours in each day for all my committments! :)
4/10/2012 ... Added
some documents and additional dates and names to the DeVoll family information on the Phineas McCollor branch of the family
tree.
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April 10, 2012.... This
email arrived in my inbox yesterday, from one of our "cousins". It carries tragic news and links
to an excellent organization. All of us in some small or large way have been touched by suicide, and a select few, myself
included, know first hand the despair that led this boy to, as the ad campaign says: choose a "permenant solution to
a temporary problem". Even if you don't catch this posting until after the particular drive she is emailing about,
please consider a donation in general to this organization. Deane is a "cousin" from the Phineas McCollor branch
of the family tree, and has been especially helpful in providing data on her family. My heart goes out to you, Deane.
Áine Irene
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Support me! Dear Friends,
You know that I am not one for sending
out mass emails asking for support to a cause but I had to make an exception because this one hit home -
literally. On April 1, 2012, my 17 year old nephew, Forrest, took his life. Even with the continued
love and support from his family and friends, he just couldn't find his way out of the darkness.
I will be joining my brother and his family with thousands of people nationwide to walk in AFSP's Out
of the Darkness Community Walk to benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
My personal fundraising goal is $500. I would appreciate any support that you give me for this worthwhile
cause.
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is at the forefront of research,
education and prevention initiatives designed to reduce loss of life from suicide. With more than 36,000
lives lost each year in the U.S. and over one million worldwide, the importance of AFSP's mission has
never been greater, nor our work more urgent.
I hope you will consider supporting my
participation in this event. Any contribution will help the work of AFSP, and all donations are 100% tax deductible.
Donating online is safe and easy! Click the link below to go to my personal fundraising
page.
http://afsp.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&eventID=1764&participantID=286058 .
Thank you for considering this request
for your support. If you have any questions about the Out of the Darkness Community Walks or AFSP do not hesitate
to contact me or visit
www.afsp.org
Sincerely,
Deane Walker Kiley
Support me!
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3/2/2012 -- Still here - but not
here. I have so much I want to add to the site, but it's seemed one thing after the other. On the first of this year I was
diagnosed with breast cancer, thankfully caught very very early on (get those mammograms, Ladies! This would not yet have
been found via self-exam). More an inconvenience than anything, throwing into action a domino effect with my caregiving
duties and my work, it's all off-kilter. I continue to get corrections and new info via email - PLEASE do
not stop sending them! I will eventually - soon, I hope, return to work on the site. Just wanted to let you
all know what the delay is about. Thanks to everyone who has written with concern over my condition - I'm anxious to
get it resolved but I'm really OK. Áine Irene
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Kenneth McCollor and his school project presentation! His Mom, Kristy, writes "His presentation is on the origin of the McCollor name. It features Patrick and Bridget, and then our line
of Thomas and Mary. He added information on Tyrone, Quebec City, and then Maine. In the center is a family code of arms we
found online. Kenneth found this website while researching his project, and I'm very grateful that he and his mother
shared his work with the site. It reminds me of one of the reasons I created the site: to record and make widely available
via the internet, the family data, stories, photos and documents for current generations and those yet to come. If you
have any of these items or data to share with the site, PLEASE contact me, I would love to hear from you! |
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The
Ernest Carl Autograph Book
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The Cemetery Project
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The McCollough
Heritage Quilt
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The
Mahoney Connection
watch for more Mahoney information to come, all courtesy the hard work of Doris Mahoney |
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Reunion 2009
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