I was going through the Social Security Death Index the other day looking for a friend. As I often do, I searched names that came to me randomly. I was sorry to see that Virginia (Burke) Fields passed away. Virginia was my Grandmother, Anna (Jackson) Shellabarger’s first cousin and she was the last of that…
Category: About My Ancestors
That’s Old News: Restricting Japanese Immigration
Every now and then you learn something about a relative that makes you cringe. You may have heard of the Chinese Exclusion Act, but didn’t you know that in the early 1900s, a wave of anti-Japanese fervor swept through California? On March 6th, 1905, the San Francisco Chronicle dedicated a whole page to the “Japanese…
SNGF: Number One Songs
Randy’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge over at Genea Musings is to look up the #1 songs for the important days in our lives. Here are some of mine: Day I was born: I Want To Hold Your Hand by the Beatles Day I went to Kindergarten: Honky Tonk Woman by the Rolling Stones Day…
My Kelly’s Are Driving Me Insane
I have spent the last couple of days working on my Kelly line. I have learned alot about Martin and Catherine (Dolan) Kelly in the last two years. Even though I have collected alot of data on them, I still can’t find the couple in the 1880 Census. I decided to take another look at…
Monday Mystery: A Kelly Out of Place
I spent the weekend working on my Kelly folder. I got alot of documents input and organized. As I was flipping through city directory pages I noticed this entry in the 1893 San Francisco City Directory: Kelly, Michael J, horseshoer, r Five Mile House It caught my eye because my relative, Mary (Kelly) Meincke and…