As part of the Genea Blogger Games, one of my tasks is to tell you what the Research Journal Blog is about. As I remodeled and refocused the blog recently, it seems like this is a good opportunity. Originally, this blog was set up to take research projects and follow them step by step to…
Author: Melody Lassalle
I’m participating in the Genea-Blogger Games
As of today, I am an official participant in the 2008 Genea Blogger Group Games. I will be competing in all five categories, but my goal is not to complete every task in every categories. I would like to do my best and make a good showing, a bit better than the Eddie the Eagle…
Little Ol’ Grandma
I have a few photographs of my Grandma Lassalle as a young woman. It is difficult for me to reconcile the fashionable young woman in those early 1900 photographs with the old woman I knew as my Grandma. As I remember her, she was VERY old. (She was barely 70 in my earliest recollections!) She…
The 1906 Earthquake Leaves a Mark on My Relatives
My relatives were native San Franciscans with a history that went back to the early 1850s. At 5:13am, 18 April 1906, an earthquake shattered the lives of everyone in the city and many others of the Bay Area region. My relatives were impacted by this horrific event in more ways than one. The Jacksons Are…
The Train Photo Mystery
The introduction of trains into the Hawaiian sugar plantation system was a major advancement. Trains made the shipping of cane from one end of the plantation to another much easier. In the early years, track was laid as needed. Later trains became an integral part of Hawaiian plantation technology. In small way, my ancestors were…