CREDITING ME/REQUESTING PERMISSIONS: Please FREELY use narratives/bios and photographs by me. No permission or credit is required. I release all of my own photographs and written narratives into the Public Domain without limitation.

Although permission or credit are not required to use my work, I **DO ALWAYS** appreciate seeing and hearing about how my work helped your family, and I appreciate looking at links to my work in use. Please write me about it, if you will - especially if my work helped you make a breakthrough like finding missing information or finding previously-unknown family members.

TRANSFERS: Transfers are available by request (with more open options than FindAGrave rules require). Click on "Suggest Other Edits" on the suggested edits page of the memorial you would like to maintain, and type your transfer request. Transfers are available for memorials for which transfers are non-mandatory under FindAGrave rules (aunts, uncles, cousins, great grandparents beyond the first generation - 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.-great-grandparents, unrelated personal FRIENDS, etc.). Please SPECIFY your relationship in your request, as I maintain many pages at the request of their families. Transfers are not guaranteed due to specific requests by some families.

COLGAN FAMILIES: If you would like help, or would like to collaborate, please contact me.

RESEARCH AND RESOURCES ON SOME (BUT NOT ALL) COLGAN FAMILIES WITH SIGNIFICANT PHILADELPHIA-AREA CONNECTIONS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE. MORE WILL BE ADDED ON AN ON-GOING BASIS.:
http://www.colgan.family

Sign up for the Philadelphia Colgan Families Newsletter, available by e-mail, for free, to receive updates on research, findings, stories, articles, and more. Contributions of stories, articles, documentation, and more are accepted for the newsletter. Share your stories, photos, research and more with your Colgan cousins!:
http://www.colgan.family

Research on several Colgan and McColgan families with significant ties in the Greater Philadelphia area is also available on a number of freely-published Ancestry.com family trees, and FindAGrave memorials (as well as research on other families connected by blood, marriage, and shared history).

This research will continue to grow and be published freely. Volunteer-provided help is available with research, documentation, etc., upon request. Send a direct message or e-mail. ABSOLUTELY NO FEES ARE CHARGED FOR HELP.

Additional work on family ties in Ireland will be published as further information is documented and verified. Due to significant historical documentation losses throughout the island's tumultuous history, Irish genealogy requires significant time and effort to complete while meeting the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS).

HONORING COLGAN AND COLGAN-DESCENDANT VETERANS:
I provide freely-given assistance to support acquiring free U.S. Veterans Administration headstones, medallions, and other grave markers for eligible veterans who come from a Colgan-connected family (regardless of the last name of the veteran, and either by blood or adoption. You do not legally need to be the direct next-of-kin to acquire a Veterans Administration grave marker. We can help you to get one recognizing the service of a cousin, aunt, uncle, parent, great grandparent, or more distant relation.).

In 2021, we were able to get the Department of the Army to replace the headstone of CPL William Francis Colgan who has no living direct descendants, but Colgan family members wanted to correctly recognize his honorable service.

In the near future, we plan to acquire a Veterans Administration headstone to mark the currently-unmarked grave of Civil War Union veteran PVT James Colgan, who immigrated to Philadelphia from Ireland during the Great Famine era and served his adopted country through service in the Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

Regardless of the veteran's surname, we will happily, freely volunteer help with researching, documenting, requesting, and having installed, a U.S. government-funded V.A. headstone, grave marker, or medallion, for eligible veterans who come from a Colgan-connected family by descent, marriage, or adoption.

In addition to traditional grave-sites, government-furnished V.A. memorial headstones and markers may be available for qualified veterans whose remains are missing, not identified, donated to science, buried at sea, or scattered.

SOURCES: To maintain the quality of information being added to memorials I manage, please specify the SOURCE when requesting changes, as edits may be declined if I do not receive a source. It is not unusual for people to submit changes to a page of someone with a similar name, or incorrect information that has already been disproved, thus creating confusion and ruining the quality of information on my managed pages, if the suggested edits were approved.

THIRD PARTY CREDIT AND PERMISSIONS: People often give me permission to post photos and other items, but I am unable to give further permission to anyone to use those items, unless the owner has specified I can delegate sharing (which is rare). Please check with me on ownership of items that I note that I do not own, so I can try to get further permission from the original owner. I cannot make promises on behalf of those individuals.

RE-USE OF THESE GUIDELINES: Several people have asked for permission to copy, edit, and use these guidelines on their own FindAGrave profiles. As with my other written materials on this site, they are freely available in the public domain ("free as in free speech, and free as in free beer"). You may copy, edit, and use as you please. As always, I appreciate hearing if something I made helped you, but this is not a requirement, and neither is attribution.

ATTRIBUTION USE OF E-MAIL ADDRESS: If you really feel it necessary to provide attribution for use of my materials, please do not include my e-mail address, as it attracts spam-bots. You must be logged in as a site user to view my e-mail address here. Please help me keep it that way, for human-use-only, and for my sanity.

MY BLOG ON GENEALOGY TIPS: http://www.genealogy.ninja
MY FAMILY WEBSITE: http://www.colgan.family
COMING SOON: http://www.lorentz.family

🥷

CREDITING ME/REQUESTING PERMISSIONS: Please FREELY use narratives/bios and photographs by me. No permission or credit is required. I release all of my own photographs and written narratives into the Public Domain without limitation.

Although permission or credit are not required to use my work, I **DO ALWAYS** appreciate seeing and hearing about how my work helped your family, and I appreciate looking at links to my work in use. Please write me about it, if you will - especially if my work helped you make a breakthrough like finding missing information or finding previously-unknown family members.

TRANSFERS: Transfers are available by request (with more open options than FindAGrave rules require). Click on "Suggest Other Edits" on the suggested edits page of the memorial you would like to maintain, and type your transfer request. Transfers are available for memorials for which transfers are non-mandatory under FindAGrave rules (aunts, uncles, cousins, great grandparents beyond the first generation - 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.-great-grandparents, unrelated personal FRIENDS, etc.). Please SPECIFY your relationship in your request, as I maintain many pages at the request of their families. Transfers are not guaranteed due to specific requests by some families.

COLGAN FAMILIES: If you would like help, or would like to collaborate, please contact me.

RESEARCH AND RESOURCES ON SOME (BUT NOT ALL) COLGAN FAMILIES WITH SIGNIFICANT PHILADELPHIA-AREA CONNECTIONS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE. MORE WILL BE ADDED ON AN ON-GOING BASIS.:
http://www.colgan.family

Sign up for the Philadelphia Colgan Families Newsletter, available by e-mail, for free, to receive updates on research, findings, stories, articles, and more. Contributions of stories, articles, documentation, and more are accepted for the newsletter. Share your stories, photos, research and more with your Colgan cousins!:
http://www.colgan.family

Research on several Colgan and McColgan families with significant ties in the Greater Philadelphia area is also available on a number of freely-published Ancestry.com family trees, and FindAGrave memorials (as well as research on other families connected by blood, marriage, and shared history).

This research will continue to grow and be published freely. Volunteer-provided help is available with research, documentation, etc., upon request. Send a direct message or e-mail. ABSOLUTELY NO FEES ARE CHARGED FOR HELP.

Additional work on family ties in Ireland will be published as further information is documented and verified. Due to significant historical documentation losses throughout the island's tumultuous history, Irish genealogy requires significant time and effort to complete while meeting the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS).

HONORING COLGAN AND COLGAN-DESCENDANT VETERANS:
I provide freely-given assistance to support acquiring free U.S. Veterans Administration headstones, medallions, and other grave markers for eligible veterans who come from a Colgan-connected family (regardless of the last name of the veteran, and either by blood or adoption. You do not legally need to be the direct next-of-kin to acquire a Veterans Administration grave marker. We can help you to get one recognizing the service of a cousin, aunt, uncle, parent, great grandparent, or more distant relation.).

In 2021, we were able to get the Department of the Army to replace the headstone of CPL William Francis Colgan who has no living direct descendants, but Colgan family members wanted to correctly recognize his honorable service.

In the near future, we plan to acquire a Veterans Administration headstone to mark the currently-unmarked grave of Civil War Union veteran PVT James Colgan, who immigrated to Philadelphia from Ireland during the Great Famine era and served his adopted country through service in the Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

Regardless of the veteran's surname, we will happily, freely volunteer help with researching, documenting, requesting, and having installed, a U.S. government-funded V.A. headstone, grave marker, or medallion, for eligible veterans who come from a Colgan-connected family by descent, marriage, or adoption.

In addition to traditional grave-sites, government-furnished V.A. memorial headstones and markers may be available for qualified veterans whose remains are missing, not identified, donated to science, buried at sea, or scattered.

SOURCES: To maintain the quality of information being added to memorials I manage, please specify the SOURCE when requesting changes, as edits may be declined if I do not receive a source. It is not unusual for people to submit changes to a page of someone with a similar name, or incorrect information that has already been disproved, thus creating confusion and ruining the quality of information on my managed pages, if the suggested edits were approved.

THIRD PARTY CREDIT AND PERMISSIONS: People often give me permission to post photos and other items, but I am unable to give further permission to anyone to use those items, unless the owner has specified I can delegate sharing (which is rare). Please check with me on ownership of items that I note that I do not own, so I can try to get further permission from the original owner. I cannot make promises on behalf of those individuals.

RE-USE OF THESE GUIDELINES: Several people have asked for permission to copy, edit, and use these guidelines on their own FindAGrave profiles. As with my other written materials on this site, they are freely available in the public domain ("free as in free speech, and free as in free beer"). You may copy, edit, and use as you please. As always, I appreciate hearing if something I made helped you, but this is not a requirement, and neither is attribution.

ATTRIBUTION USE OF E-MAIL ADDRESS: If you really feel it necessary to provide attribution for use of my materials, please do not include my e-mail address, as it attracts spam-bots. You must be logged in as a site user to view my e-mail address here. Please help me keep it that way, for human-use-only, and for my sanity.

MY BLOG ON GENEALOGY TIPS: http://www.genealogy.ninja
MY FAMILY WEBSITE: http://www.colgan.family
COMING SOON: http://www.lorentz.family

🥷