[I am working my way backward through Amy Coffin’s 52 weeks of Abundant Genealogy because I wasn’t paying attention at the beginning of the year. This is my entry for week #20…Social Media] When I first joined Facebook a few years ago, I would have never dreamed that social media would become so important to…
That’s Old News: The Akana Wedding
This entry comes from the Garden Island Newspaper, 23 May 1912. I’ve often wondered how weddings might have been celebrated in the early 1900s in Hawaii. I found this article in the newspaper that describes the wedding of Mr. I. Akana to Miss Rose Aea. The couple was married in the Catholic Church in Eleele,…
One of the Highest Wage Earners in 1940
Another entry in my Labor Day photo series… One of the interesting things about going through the 1940 census is seeing how much money my relatives were earning in 1939. For the most part, my relatives were earning between $500 and $1500 a year. So, I was surprised to see that my great uncle Joe…
My Grandma Was a Working Woman
Long before women burned their bras, my Grandma Shellabarger was a working woman. In fact, she worked most of her life. At first it was because her family couldn’t survive during the Depression on the 33 cents an hour my Grandfather made. After their divorce it was necessity. She needed to feed herself and her…
Before He Became a Painter and Writer
Another entry in my Labor Day photo series… Frank Milton Shellabarger was my grandmother’s third husband. My software’s relationship calculator says that we are not related by blood. I will always know him as Grandpa Frank even though he died when I was 1 year old. When my grandma met him in the late 1950s,…