Genealogy, History, Heritage, How To
It’s week 18 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge and I’m still here. LOL This week the theme is Where There’s a Will. I had a little trouble with this theme because I only have one ancestor’s will in my collection. Rather then presenting that one will again (I’ve posted about it in…
It is the 109th anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. There are just two survivors left from that terrible day. Some day soon, there won’t be any and we will have to rely on published accounts and the stories passed down in families. If you’re interesting in learning more about the disaster,…
This week’s theme in the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge is Different. It could be interpreted as an ancestor who is different from me or one who acted in a way that he or she shouldn’t have. I’m going with the latter, which happens to be a way I would not have acted either….
Sometimes the answer to the problem is right in front of your face. I was pretty sure the Jean Lassalle on this WWI draft registration card was my grandfather. The birthday matches. I was reluctant to say this was my grandfather since the physical characteristics were off. My grandpa was not medium height (unless their…
Yesterday, I wrote a post for the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks concerning my 3rd great grandfather, Martin Kelly. As with all things genealogy, I started writing about an attempted murder and I ending up thinking about boardinghouses. Specifically, the boardinghouses Martin Kelly owned. In the San Francisco Chronicle article about the shooting, it stated…