Category Archives: Newspaper Research

That’s Old News: Caught In Shanghai

♦ August 21, 2011 ♦ Leave Your Comment

The 26th of March 1926 Oakland Tribune headline blared… Then it was followed by the story of a young couple separated by continents.  The young woman, Norine “Dorothy” Segalas, was at home in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Her boyfriend, Everett Bargones, was working for the Dollar Steamship company in Shanghai, China.  A letter home …

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That’s Old News: Attempted Murder/Suicide

♦ July 24, 2011 ♦ 2 Comments

The Guido family was prominent in the Oakland family.  I have several cross links to my Pacheco and de Braga distant cousins. I came across this family tragedy when searching the Oakland Tribune, 29 January 1906, page 7. This is the tragic story of the family of Manoel Guido.  Manuel Guido owned a saloon in …

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Wedding Chapel Wednesday: Proof That They Married

♦ July 20, 2011 ♦ Leave Your Comment

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 …

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