This week’s 52 weeks of genealogy challenge is to write about our first pet. There were probably animals before I came along in ’64. We had a menagerie throughout my childhood. But, the first one I remember was our dog, Bubbles, which we got when I was four. When my Godparent’s poodle became pregnant, we…
Learning to Read Portuguese Records
Dick Eastman’s Genealogy Newsletter had a post this week about the courses being offered for free through the LDS Church’s FamilySearch.org website. I decided to see if they had anything available to assist Portuguese researchers. I found they have three courses under Reading Handwritten Records Series: Portuguese Lesson 1: Portuguese Letters This lesson covers the…
SNGF: My Genea Wish List
Randy’s Genea-Musings Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge is posted. This week Randy asks us to come up with our genealogy wish list, whether it be documents, education, or other things we really wish for that would bring our genealogy dreams to fruition. This is my genealogy dream come true list: 1. A birth, baptismal, or…
SNGF: The 1940 Census
Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge at Genea-Musings is all about the 1940 census, what we plan to find, and our expectations. As it will not have an index at first, I suspect that I will be slogged down in four places: Kilauea (Kauai Co., HI), Oakland (Alameda Co., CA), Spreckels (Monterey Co., CA),…
SNGF: How Many Surnames: the Summation
I thought I’d wrap up what I found in this post. These are the tallies for all three of these database. I should note that there is overlap in these database as some individuals are input into all 3 (like me!) My tally will be slightly askew from that and my inability to add correctly…