Paul Kreft Family c 1920s

Patrick and Bridget's daughter Kate (1861-1914) married Paul Louis (Ludwig) Frederick (Ferdinand) Kreft (1848-1900) in the late 1870s/early 1880s. They had eight children, the seventh child was Paul Louis Frederick Kreft (1893-1975) and is pictured here with his first wife, Ella Luella Lewis (1898-1993).  They applied for a marriage license on 23 Jan 1913 in Wasco County, Oregon, with permission to marry granted by Paul's mother Kate, as Paul was under 21 years of age.  They later divorced on 8 November 1924 in Twin Falls, Idaho. Their two children pictured with them are Catherine Kreft Call (1915-2003) and Paul Frederick Kreft (1918-1967).

The photo was taken in the early 1920s, possibly in Idaho.

Photo source: Dolly Kreft Purcell, via email May 26, 2020. Thank you Dolly for this beautiful photo of your grandparents, father and aunt and the additional family information you provided.

Unknown Woman

Sal Bigone has a treasure trove of photos of the McIntyre family. He has graciously shared many of them and they appear in other posts in this blog. But this one, of the beautiful woman in a hat, has eluded him and his cousins. Does anyone know who she might be?

It is a possibility she is the wife of one of Patrick McIntyre's children.

The photo was taken at Bushnelf studios, most likely in San Francisco, California. Date unknown. There is no writing on the reverse side.

Does anyone know who this is?

Photo source: Sal Bigone, May 24, 2020

Richard M. McIntyre 1943-2019 Remembered

In an effort to learn more about his family, Richard did an autosomal DNA testing at Ancestry.com. In the fall of 2018, Sal Bigone, who also had tested at Ancestry.com, noticed the rather close McIntyre match in his results and contacted Richard. Sal said they had a wonderful one hour telephone conversation. Sal then shared this information with the cousins. Over the next several months Richard communicated via telephone and email with a number of the cousins, sharing his genealogical information with many of us. Elaine added this information to her database and for those deceased individuals in Richard's family, that information now appears on www.McIntyreGenealogy.com.

Richard knew the name, Bartholomew McIntyre, as his grandfather, but didn't know the name of his grandmother. Through information received from Marina, it was known that Richard's father, Anthony, was the child of Bartholomew McIntyre (1854-1924) and Paula Calderone (1887-?). This was shared with Richard.

Richard kindly sent photos of himself to Elaine who, at Richard's request, scanned them and sent the images to a number of  the cousins. Since Richard picked out these photos as representative of his life, we know they meant a lot to him. Here are a couple of the pictures he sent.

Boot camp, 1962

Medical cruise, 1963

With his son, 1973

Sitting at the piano, 1994

Security officer, 2005

Richard also took a 37 marker Y-DNA test for Elaine on FamilyTreeDNA in the spring of 2019. When the results came back, he and Elaine's paternal uncle, Thomas McIntyre, were a match, with only a one marker difference. Since then, Elaine's brother Larry, has taken the 111Y-DNA test at FamilyTreeDNA and he too matches Richard at a one marker difference. These tests prove Richard's McIntyre family which can be traced up through Edward McIntyre (c1806-1881), the father of Patrick McIntyre, and Michael McIntyre (c1805-1891), Elaine's 2nd great grandfather, were most likely brothers. If this is true, then we all share the common ancestry of the parents of Edward and Michael.  Thank you Richard for "tying" our families together with your DNA.


Richard Martin McIntyre, the son of Anthony Patrick McIntyre (1909-1986) and Dorothy Nell Stein (1917-2000), was born in San Mateo County, California on October 6, 1943. He married Alta Lee Neal and they had one son. He lived his final years in Las Vegas, Nevada where he died on September 16, 2019. RIP.

Sources: Photos from the collection of Richard M. McIntyre; DNA testing at Ancestry.com and FTDNA; genealogy information from records provided by Richard McIntyre, Marina McIntyre-Steffan, Elaine McIntyre Beaudoin and Sal Bigone.

Maria McIntire Ruiz is Remembered

Maria McIntire and Alfredo Ruiz
Married October 28, 1905
Photo courtesy: Sal Bigone

Maria (Mary Anne) McIntire Ruiz (1883-1952), daughter of Bartolo McIntire (1854-1924) and Concepcion Ramos (b1863-1913), is remembered fondly by her grand niece, Joanie Hamilton Zandona. 

She shares: 

"My mother was extremely close to Maria and loved her deeply. She was the oldest of the sisters and the matriarch of the family.  This is the story that my mother always told me. 

"Maria came to my mother's (Betty Jane Artiga Hamilton 1923-2013) house on 2214 Clay Street and told her that she had come to say goodbye because this would be the last time that they would see each other because she was going to die.  My mother remembered it as being very strange.  A week later, Maria died.  My mother took her death very hard.  

"The other strange story that my mother always used to tell me was that Maria's daughter, Mary Angela, was very beautiful and one day (I don't remember why) Mary Angela got angry at Maria, went to bed and never got out of the bed making Maria wait on her hand and foot until she died. The day Maria died, Mary Angela got out of her bed and, from that time forward, was no longer bed ridden.  Strange. My mother took me to Sir Francis Woods in SF to see where they lived.  I took pictures, which I still have."

Thank you Joanie for sharing the two stories about your great aunt, Maria McIntire Ruiz.

RUIZ - June 23, 1952, Mary Anne, beloved wife of the late Alfred Ruiz, dearly beloved mother of Mary Angela Ruiz, loving sister of Mrs. Frances Campos, Mrs. Mercedes Artiga and Mrs. Elena Morales, loving sister-in-law of Gustavo A. Ruiz.

Friends are invited to attend the funeral Wednesday, June 25, 1952, at 7:45 a.m. from Duggan's, 3434 17th Street, near Valencia; thence to St. Charles' Church where a Requiem High Mass will be offered at 8:15 a.m. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. Recitation of the Rosary Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock.

Source: San Francisco Examiner, June 24, 1952.