Author Archives: Melody
The Sinking of the Liscome Bay
Reposting the story of my Uncle’s death during WWII for Memorial Day… The escort carrier, Liscome Bay, arrived at Pearl Harbor in October of 1943. It would take part in the invasion of the Gilbert Islands and the liberation of two other islands: Tarawa and Makin. On board were 914 men. One of them was …
A Genealogy Website I Could Not Do Without
Everyone’s got favorite website. Some gravitate towards the large sites with numerous databases covering their area of research. Others have found a small site that covers a county or a town where their people originated from. Each would deem these websites indispensable. One website I could not do without is the SFGenealogy website run by …
Someone Gave me the Kreativ Blogger Award!
I had a bad week last week. My dog was having health issues, waking me up every 2 hours to go to the bathroom, for almost a week. She’s doing much better now. Unbeknownst to me, Earline Hines of the Ancestral Notes blog, gave me the Kreativ Blogger Award! Earline, I wasn’t ignoring you. I …