Category Archives: California Roots
My Great Grandmother Became an Adult at 11
[Fearless Females: Prompts for Women's History Month, March 11th--Female ancestor who died young...this is a repeat from last year] (Reposting this one from last year. My Great Grandmother was an incredible woman!) My Great Great Grandmother was Margaret (Kelly) Jones. Margaret lived next door to a young man named, Thomas Augustine Jones. They married in …
Oakland Bay Bridge Anniversary
If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you have probably passed over the Oakland Bay Bridge many times in your life. The bridge is celebrating it’s 75th anniversary. Huffingon Post has some amazing photographs from the construction of the bridge: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/11/bay-bridge-anniversary_n_1087376.html Construction of the bridge was started in 1933, at the height of …
100 Year Anniversary: Women’s Right to Vote in California
Today marks the day that men went to the voting booth and cast their ballots on whether women should have the right to vote in California. It was no easy win. Statewide the vote was 125,037 for and 121,450 against. According to this article in the Daily Review Newspaper, rural areas were more in favor …