If you’ve done research in a place where a disaster has struck, then you know the difficulty I experienced trying to find my Great Great Grandparent’s marriage record. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire not only wiped out many government records, but church records as well. The ability to use one or the other…
Tag: San Francisco
The Last Of A Generation Has Passed Away
I was going through the Social Security Death Index the other day looking for a friend. As I often do, I searched names that came to me randomly. I was sorry to see that Virginia (Burke) Fields passed away. Virginia was my Grandmother, Anna (Jackson) Shellabarger’s first cousin and she was the last of that…
My Kelly’s Are Driving Me Insane
I have spent the last couple of days working on my Kelly line. I have learned alot about Martin and Catherine (Dolan) Kelly in the last two years. Even though I have collected alot of data on them, I still can’t find the couple in the 1880 Census. I decided to take another look at…
I Had The Information All Along
Please tell me this has happened to you! I was working on my Jones/Bourne computer file folder last night. I was going over city directory pages from the 1890s. There were about 10-12 Bourne’s living in San Francisco total. Yet, I couldn’t link any of them to my tree. Something kept tickling the back of…
That’s Old News: Too Young To Serve
I came across this article in the Daily Alta Newspaper [San Francisco, CA], 22 August 1866, while searching for the McSwegan family (aka McSweegan). This was under the Fourth District Court, “Discharged”: Mary (Gallagher) McSwegan, a widow, was only in the U.S. about three years when this happened. From the information given, her oldest son,…