Today is election day! I’m a permanent absentee voter, so I cast my ballot two weeks ago. My state provides a way to check to see if my ballot has been received–and it has! I’m one of a long line of women voters from my family. I have distant relatives who fought for the right…
SNGF: Ancestor Roulette
Randy has his new Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge up at Genea-Musings.com. This week it’s Ancestor Roulette. Take a great grandmother’s birth year and divide it by 90. Then, find this person on an ahnentafel chart, provide their vitals, and share three facts about them. I chose my great grandmother, Elizabeth (Segalas) Lassalle. She was…
East Coast Friends and Family: Please be safe!
Hurricane Sandy is pounding the East Coast tonight like nothing we have ever seen. I was following Twitter #Sandy tonight and hearing some terrible stories. The photos are mind boggling. I don’t know what we will see tomorrow when the water recedes and the storm passes by. I saw on Twitter that California’s Governor Brown…
Beware of False Tombstones
Carol from the Reflections on the Fence blog posted a link to a blog post that I think you all should read. It is from the Ancestoring blog and titled “Problems with Find-A-Grave“. The author tells about problems with scammers who are using Find-A-Grave to mess with our heads. Evidently, some people get their jollies…
Where were you when the Loma Prieta Quake Struck?
Today marks the anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake. 17 October 1989 started out as a day of hope and excitement. People were excited about the Bay Bridge Series between the A’s and the Giants. They got in their cards, sat down in a seat on a BART train, or waited for the bus to…