I am working on a research project for a friend because I can’t seem to get my genealogy fix with my own lines 😉 I like working on other people’s trees since it gives me experience in a research area that I wouldn’t otherwise come into contact with. This line has me a bit confounded. …
Category: General Genealogy
And the Winner is…
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…
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…
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…