Angie was my Great Aunt. She and Theodore grew up together in Oakland, CA. They were said to be madly in love. She developed toxemia of pregnancy during her first pregnancy and died at the age of 23. It is said that Theodore never fully recovered from that loss. Name: Angie MARGIE-9710 Sex: Female Father: …
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Minnie (Ventura) Smith’s Individual Summary
(Minnie was my Great Aunt. She was said to be a sweet person and was well liked. She died at 47 of stomach cancer. It was said that she and her husband were madly in love and that he died of broken heart.) Name: Minnie Frances VENTURA-2112 Sex: Female Father: Francisco De Boa VENTURA…
Why Didn’t Anyone Ask How My Grandparents Met?
[Fearless Females, Prompts for Women’s History Month, March 5th: How did they meet?] My Grandma Lassalle was born in San Francisco, spent a brief part of her childhood in Modesto, and spent most of her pre-marriage years in Oakland, California. Her parents owned a laundry business, where Grandma also worked. My Grandpa Lassalle was born…
Placida (Argues) LaClaustra’s Individual Summary
(From one of my collateral lines) Name: Placida ARGUES-78461 Sex: Female Individual Facts Birth 1862 Spain Immigration 1904 (about age 42) Residence 1910 (about age 48) Grove St.; Oakland, Alameda Co., CA Death 15 Dec 1922 (about age 60) Alt. Name 1929 (about age 67) Plazide LACLAUSTRA-78463 Residence 1930 (about age 68) 1033 39th; Oakland,…
Oakland A’s Win the Division
This week the Oakland A’s proved everyone from the concessions stand operator to the Commissioner of Baseball wrong. They didn’t have the big salaries. They didn’t have the big name players. They didn’t have the owners behind them. Yet, somehow they kept winning and winning. They played hard and eventually, they caught up to the…