I don’t know why Magdelaine Mazeres left France for America. She arrived in the late 1870s, a single woman, navigating the bustling city of San Francisco alone. She ended up in a bad situation. Would she survive the challenges ahead of her as a single parent alone in the city? Let’s find out. Here is…
MyHeritage DNA Ups Its Game with Updated Chromosome Browser
MyHeritage DNA made a lot of genealogists happy in January 2018 by adding a chromosome browser. This allowed users to see what chromosome sequence they shared with DNA matches. But, it was limited to seeing only one match at a time. The newest update allows you to compare multiple matches to each other, thus making…
What Makes Me Tick? Satisfying My Curiosity
I was stumbling over this question, not knowing what direction to go in, so I worked on something else. As I was researching my great great aunt’s employment for the WPA in 1940, I started asking myself questions about her situation. How would a woman in her 50s or 60s find sewing work through the…
Genealogy on Flipboard
Have you heard of Flipboard? Flipboard is a social media app that allows you to collect articles and blog posts in magazine format. To save an item, you “flip” it. You can share these items publicly or keep them to yourself. It’s a great way to save articles you want to go back to or…
Women Worked For The WPA: The 1940 Census and Marie Grace Bonita
Did you know that women were employed through the WPA during the Depression just like men? The 1940 US Federal Census is one place where we can find out if our relatives were working for the WPA. Look under the employment section. If you see WPA in the Industry column, it means the person was…