The 26th of March 1926 Oakland Tribune headline blared… Then it was followed by the story of a young couple separated by continents. The young woman, Norine “Dorothy” Segalas, was at home in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her boyfriend, Everett Bargones, was working for the Dollar Steamship company in Shanghai, China. A letter home…
Category: About My Ancestors
The International Date Line
For Treasure Chest Thursday, I’ve selected this cerficate from my Dad’s file: It was issued on the 4th of February 1952. My Dad was stationed in Japan and Korea during the Korean Conflict. I find on Wikipedia the article “Line-Crossing Ceremony” which shows different rituals used in the Navy. My Dad was in the Army…
Monday Mystery: The Sugar Plantation Train Photo
In my early years of contacting cousins, I learned about a special photograph that had relatives from my Pacheco side of the tree in it. As the story always went… The person we shall name “cousin”, but it really refers to 6 or 7 different cousins, went to Hawaii sometime in the 1980s. They were…
Wordless Wednesday: Our Tallest Cousin, Gordon Garrett
Gordon Garrett, son of Harry Garrett and Julia (Jackson) Lien, with one of my Grandmother’s boyfriends. Photo taken ca 1950. He came in at 6 feet 9 inches tall. I remember him coming in the house and having to duck to get under the door jamb.
Veronique is Laid to Rest
One of my most persistent mysteries was what happened to Veronique Mazeres after she married Baptiste Dupouy in San Francisco in 1899. My research turned up no leads in the census, city directories, or other sources. I was beginning to think that Veronique had gone back to France. After scanning many photographs from my…