I’ve been working on the French lines over the passed two weeks. I came across this book that was really a gold mine of information. If you’ve got French lines in California (especially San Francisco or Oakland) you’ll want to check this book out. It is called “Guide des Francais en California: 1916-1917”. Edited by…
Category: California Genealogy
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…
Wedding Chapel Wednesday: Proof That They Married
If you’ve done research in a place where a disaster has struck, then you know the difficulty I experienced trying to find my Great Great Grandparent’s marriage record. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire not only wiped out many government records, but church records as well. The ability to use one or the other…
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…
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…