As it is Labor Day weekend, I thought I’d post the one photograph I have that links my relatives to their sugar plantation laboring roots. This photograph is in my cousin Ted’s collection. It was taken on one of the sugar beet farms in Monterey County, CA. It’s most likely King City, Soledad, or Spreckels. …
Category: California Genealogy
Are You My Great Aunt?
A few days ago, I found a marriage entry that kind of blew me away. My Great Aunt, Margaret (Jackson) Fafri, was known to have married three times. But the marriage entry that I found for her “third” marriage showed that we all were wrong. She was married (at least) four times. In 1944, she…
Wedding Chapel Wednesday: Koch and Meincke Marriage License
Recently, I’ve been working with the San Francisco County Records at <a href=”http://www.familysearch.org” target=”_blank”>FamilySearch.org</a>. This collection includes marriage licenses, certificates, and record indexes covering roughly 1906 to 1975. This week I located the marriage license of Carl Koch and Winifred Meincke. Winifred was born in 1886 to Mary Ann (Kelly) and Frederick Meincke. Carl was…
My Very First Deed
My latest discovery has to deal with my first adventure in researching land records. Even though I’ve been researching for over 20 years, I have not had to do land research. It was an aspect of genealogy I hadn’t really delved into. I knew that my San Francisco ancestors held land back as early as…
Marriage Entry Throws Me a Curve
The Olympics ended abruptly tonight, so I had some time to play around. I decided to make another stab at finding the marriage record for my Great Aunt Margaret Mary Jackson and her last husband, Alfred V. “Buster” Fafri. I have had a heck of a time finding any information of Margaret after 1920. By…