re: #128 Blind Frog Belly White

A lot of that going around. My GGGF and GGGM came from Ireland around then, first to Indiana, before settling in Pittsburgh in 1870 (where they appear in the census in the Allegheny County Home - the Poorhouse), with about 6 kids.

They’re fun to track with ancestry.com, because their name - Dignal - appears in various documents as Dignal, Dignol, Dignan, Degnan, and Buignol. My presumption is they were illiterate, so they had no idea how to spell the name, and had heavy accents that the census takers couldn’t decode. But I know it’s them because of the names and ages of the children!

We lost our O’, going from Mayo to Pittsburgh by way of Canada, and one branch of the family switched an ‘n’ for an ‘m’. 1847-49.