This is the house where my grandfather James Victor O’Connor was born in 1906. He and his young family lived here in an apartment in Chelsea, Massachusetts, for a couple of years, and then moved around the corner. I’m noticing through my research that my relatives moved around a lot. This immigrant family were renters their entire lives. Seemingly, three Hispanic families rent here now. Why my ancestors moved so often can only be guessed. However, it does present a seemingly endless number of locations for me to draw.
Visiting the Relatives 