Author Archives: Melody
106 Year Anniversary of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
With all the crazy stuff going on this week, I forgot that this today marks the anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. This is the first year that no survivors of the tragedy took part in the ceremony at Lotta Fountain. Each year participants pay tribute. Then a fire hydrant that continued …
Thoughts and Prayers for Boston and Texas
This has been some week for America, hasn’t it? We’ve had a terrorist attack and an industrial accident. My thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Texas and the people of Boston. And, my thoughts go out to the people around the world who were in the marathon or who came to see …
Surrendered Alien Certificates might help Hawaii researchers
I was browsing the new additions to ancestry.com the other day and came across an interesting find. It’s the “San Francisco, California, Surrendered Alien Certificates, 1906-1946″ database. The database covers many people who came from Hawaii to California who were not citizens of the US. You may not know that immigrants living in Hawaii at …