I’ve been doing alot of newspaper research later…I mean ALOT! I don’t think any type of research I’ve done in the last year or so has been as rewarding as searching newspapers online. The ability to find relatives through keyword searches opens up a whole world of stories beyond birth, death, and marriage records. I…
My Latest Venture…Writing for Squidoo
Note: as of 2014, all my material at Squidoo has been moved to Hubpages.com. I’ve corrected the link in this post. A couple of months ago, a friend told me about the website Squidoo. It’s an online community where people write web pages called “lenses”. Each page is almost like a mini-website in and of…
That’s Old News: Protecting A Woman’s Reputation?
In doing research in the Oakland Tribune, I came across this item under a section on saloon/liquor updates. The section was devoted to inspections on saloons, licenses applied for and the status, and different regulations. This was Oakland, Alameda County, California, 1907. I find it funny that businesses that served alcohol had to be equipped…
What Is the CMA Society?
You know I can’t leave any stone unturned. After find out from my Gr Gr Gr Grandfather’s death notice that he was a member of the CMA Society, I spent a considerable amount of time going through the 1877 San Francisco City Directory looking through the list of societies in hopes of finding one that…
First Lucky Break of the Year
I wanted to start off the new year with some family tree research. I had fooled around for awhile looking for a death notice for Catherine (Dolan) Kelly, but had no success. I came back after dinner and took up John Joseph Jones–a name with impossible to research written all over it. Through census and…