I’m sure anyone my age remembers the show Happy Days. Remember how Ritchie Cunningham’s sister, Joanie, fell in love with the Fonz’s cousin, Chachi? I thought Chachi was something they made up for the show. So, color me surprised a few years back when I found several photos of my Dad signed “Chachy”. The first…
Author: Melody Lassalle
Genealogist and writer. Creator of the Portuguese Hawaiian Genealogy and Heritage website, yourislandroutes.com
May Day Celebrations
We are having lovely Spring weather in California. We’ve had prolonged rainy seasons for the last 10 years or so. It’s really nice to experience some sunny days. All this Spring time warmth, made me remember how our school days changed in May in elementary school. As the year wound down and the weather got…
SNGF: Lesson Learned
Randy over at GeneaMusings has a new Saturday Night Challenge for us. I’m supposed look back on when I began researching my family tree and the first problem I experienced. Then, report on the lesson learned. I started researching in 1990. My beginnings included my Grandmother writing four letters about her roots. She wrote me…
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…