From day one, I was told that my ancestor, Martin Kelly, owned a boardinghouse, maybe two. Family lore was that he and his wife made a living renting rooms to people coming up to the city of San Francisco. They owned a “mile” house which marked how many miles the traveler had to go to…
Tag: Newspapers
That’s Old News: Inspector General Of Immigration Report June-September 1887
In browsing the old Hawaiian newspapers, I came across some interesting statistics. The Inspector General of Immigration, C.N. Spencer, visited various sugar plantations quarterly and reported on how many immigrants were on each plantation, and which nationality the plantation owner preferred. I assume that as bringing laborers to Hawaii was costly, the plantation owners were…
Why Did The S.S. Hansa Carrying Azorean Sugar Contract Laborers Heading for Hawaii Run into Problems in Portugal?
I thought I understood the migration trail the Azorean sugar plantation contract workers took to Hawaii: Azores to South America to San Francisco to Hawaii. After reading an old newspaper article about the voyage of the S.S. Hansa in 1882, the ship my Pacheco ancestors were on, I found that I was wrong. I expected…
52 Ancestors, Week 39: My Dad, Ace Paperboy
Wow! I really drew a blank on this one. You’d think with the decades that I’ve researched my ancestors I’d easily have found an unusual record. Part of the problem is that my ancestors jump the pond so recently, so most of my records are foreign baptismal, marriage, and death records. I thought this was…
SNGF: Headline News, 7 March 1927
Randy Seaver has his weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge posted. This week it’s headline news the day my Dad was born. My Dad was born 7 March 1927 in Oakland, California. The Oakland Tribune was the main newspaper for the city of Oakland during that time. There wasn’t any one big headline, but it…