Category Archives: About My Ancestors
The Moms in my Tree
Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms! I was thinking about my family tree and the moms that fill it’s leaves and support it’s branches. There are women of such strength and character. Women who lost children, lost husbands, lost homes…they survived what life threw at them…most of them worked to help put food on …
Was Chachy a common nickname in the 1940s and 1950s?
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 …
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 …