While everyone else is out at the beach or setting up the barbeque, I’m going to be indoors under the brand new a/c merging my three databases. I’ve written previously about how I initially separated my genealogy into three database. This was because way back in the days of DOS the genealogy software I was…
Friday Free Ebook: Hawaiian Almanac 1887
This week I’ve selected a book that most Hawaiian genealogists should find interesting. It’s the Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1887: on matters relating to the Hawaiian Islands, original and selected, of value to merchants, planters, tourists, and others. Compiled by Thos. G. Thrum. 1886 : Honolulu Press Publishing Co. The table of contents includes…
I’ll Be Away For Two Days
We’re having our central heating replaced and getting a/c installed over the next two days. My dog is not good with strangers. So, rather than have her crated or locked in a room for two days, we’re staying at my sister’s house. May they survived the visit. Before I left I thought it would be…
The Last Of A Generation Has Passed Away
I was going through the Social Security Death Index the other day looking for a friend. As I often do, I searched names that came to me randomly. I was sorry to see that Virginia (Burke) Fields passed away. Virginia was my Grandmother, Anna (Jackson) Shellabarger’s first cousin and she was the last of that…
That’s Old News: Restricting Japanese Immigration
Every now and then you learn something about a relative that makes you cringe. You may have heard of the Chinese Exclusion Act, but didn’t you know that in the early 1900s, a wave of anti-Japanese fervor swept through California? On March 6th, 1905, the San Francisco Chronicle dedicated a whole page to the “Japanese…