It’s time for the iGene Awards! AGFH proudly proclaims: “iGene Awards, The Best of The Best! It’s Academy awards time… time for the Academy of Genealogy and Family History, aka AGFH, to honor their best blog posts of 2008” According to the rules I get to nominated five of my own articles and since I’m…
Category: About My Ancestors
Picnic Attire Circa 1910
In the 10th Edition of Smile for the Camera, we’re asked to show our ancestors in costume. Not the Halloween type, but everyday wear. I’ve chosen a photograph of my Grandpa Lassalle out on a picnic with other members of the French community in the San Francisco Bay Area ca. 1912. Today if we were…
Why Bother Researching John C. Jones?
I’ve spen the last week researching a new found relative, John Charles Jones. He was the brother of my Great Great Grandfather, Thomas Augustine Jones. It was fun researching this trail. The family managed to leave several different types of documents behind. They also got themselves in the newspaper. Not so much fun for them…
My Very First Genealogy Happy Dance
The 65th Carnival of Genealogy asks us to write about one of our genealogy happy dances. You know, that moment when you practically danced around a research library or hugged the mail carrier. This post is about my first research experience and the moment I knew I was addicted. I had interviewed a couple of…
Introducing Nellie, I mean Helen, no wait…Lottie!
It really bothered me yesterday that I couldn’t find anything on John C. Jones’ daughter, Nellie. Where could she have gone to? Was she another relative who fell off the face of the Earth? I wasn’t about to give up so easily. Thursday morning I went back to the San Francisco Call Newspaper Index. In…