In the 10th Edition of Smile for the Camera, we’re asked to show our ancestors in costume. Not the Halloween type, but everyday wear. I’ve chosen a photograph of my Grandpa Lassalle out on a picnic with other members of the French community in the San Francisco Bay Area ca. 1912. Today if we were…
Tag: Oakland
My Very First Genealogy Happy Dance
The 65th Carnival of Genealogy asks us to write about one of our genealogy happy dances. You know, that moment when you practically danced around a research library or hugged the mail carrier. This post is about my first research experience and the moment I knew I was addicted. I had interviewed a couple of…
Look! It’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!
A cousin sent me an envelope filled with unnamed and unwanted photographs. Oh, how I loved getting that present in the mail. Mixed among the photographs of the Pacheco’s was this odd postcard: The postcard is none other than of my Great Great Uncle Francisco Pacheco (aka Frank Algrava), son of Joao Pacheco and Ana…
Life of Theodoro & Maria (de Braga) Pacheco
Another example of a timeline. This one is for my great grandparents, Theodoro Pacheco and Maria de Braga. In this example, I’ve incorporated historical events. It places my great grandparents within the events happening around them. ca500………Polynesians begin migrating to the Hawaiian islands 1178……….Capt. James Cook becomes the first European to arrive in the Hawaii…
My Grandparent’s House on E. 25th Street
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been using Google Street View to view the house’s my relatives lived in on E. 25th Street in Oakland. the Pacheco’s and de Braga’s began moving to E. 25th Street around 1906. They then held court there for the next 50 years or so. I’ve never been…