We are having lovely Spring weather in California. We’ve had prolonged rainy seasons for the last 10 years or so. It’s really nice to experience some sunny days. All this Spring time warmth, made me remember how our school days changed in May in elementary school. As the year wound down and the weather got…
SNGF: Lesson Learned
Randy over at GeneaMusings has a new Saturday Night Challenge for us. I’m supposed look back on when I began researching my family tree and the first problem I experienced. Then, report on the lesson learned. I started researching in 1990. My beginnings included my Grandmother writing four letters about her roots. She wrote me…
Thoughts and Prayers for Boston and Texas
This has been some week for America, hasn’t it? We’ve had a terrorist attack and an industrial accident. My thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Texas and the people of Boston. And, my thoughts go out to the people around the world who were in the marathon or who came to see…
Surrendered Alien Certificates might help Hawaii researchers
I was browsing the new additions to ancestry.com the other day and came across an interesting find. It’s the “San Francisco, California, Surrendered Alien Certificates, 1906-1946” database. The database covers many people who came from Hawaii to California who were not citizens of the US. You may not know that immigrants living in Hawaii at…
Mary Collis, Take Three
There are times when I am more efficient than I thought I was. I was beating myself up for misplacing Patrick Dolan’s probate file when it hit me. I took copious notes from the massive file! I pulled down the Kelly/Dolan binder, flipped to Patrick Dolan’s section, and began reading. After going through the notes,…