(Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories Day 10: Gifts) As I wrote about my doll, Tippy Toes, for the Smile for the Camera Edition #19, I thought I’d bring back my story about Grandma’s pajamas. Though the pajamas weren’t necessarily my favorite gifts to receive (what five year old dreams of pajamas?), but they do bring…
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Genea Challenge Two: How far can you go?
This is the second challenge set out in Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun for the Genealympics. This time I am to take one surname from my tree and write about how far back I can go. I am going to avoid the Portuguese. Their surnames change so frequently that I wouldn’t get back very…
The Truth Lies Somewhere In Between
My Dad told us this story about his schooling. “I went to school until 9th grade. Then I dropped out and went to work at Hank & Frank’s bicycle shop.” I imagined my Dad at 13 or 14 years old quitting school to help his family. He was no stranger to work. He had already…
Working at the French Laundry
[Fearless Females–Women’s History Month, March 12th: Working Girl] This photograph was taken around 1905-1910. It shows the Mazeres family in front of one of their French laundries in Oakland, Alameda Co., California. My great grandmother, Brigitte (Breilh) Mazeres, always worked alongside her husband, Charles. When he died in 1921, she ran the laundries. In the…
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Surname Distribution
This weeks Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge at Genea-Musings is “Surname Distribution.” I decided to use the World Names Profiler that Randy Seaver provide a link to to see how my surname, Lassalle, was distributed throughtout the countries in this database. My family used the spelling Lassalle with two S’s, which completely throws off everyone…