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Wordless Wednesday: Dressed Up For Winter
This is me, ca 1966. San Francisco Bay Area not Nome, Alaska.
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Bringing Old Photos Back To Life: Picnik Test
I have a bunch (okay, 4 or 5 big photo album worth) of photos from the 1980s that are slowly fading into obscurity. The colors have washed out. They look worse than the color photos in my collection...
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It was there all along
I am often reminded of one important rule of genealogy: go back over what you’ve found periodically because you never know when it will click. I don’t know how many times I’ve gone over research or...
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Laborers at the Sugar Plantation
As it is Labor Day weekend, I thought I’d post the one photograph I have that links my relatives to their sugar plantation laboring roots. This photograph is in my cousin Ted’s collection. It was...
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Women Working in the Factories
Here’s another entry for my Labor Day photo series. I found this photograph in the Oakland Tribune [Oakland, Alameda Co., CA], 15 May 1942, Front Page. The article was titled “Women Now in War Plant...
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Westinghouse Electric 1938
I have one of those long photographs rolled up for far too many years. This is a portion of it: The photo is of the employees of Westinghouse Electric Mfg., Porcelain Division, Emeryville, Alameda...
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They Owned Laundries
Another for my Labor Day photo series… My great grandfather was Charles Mazeres . Charles was from Ogeu les bains, France. He made his way to San Francisco in the early 1890s. He and my grandmother,...
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Before He Became a Painter and Writer
Another entry in my Labor Day photo series… Frank Milton Shellabarger was my grandmother’s third husband. My software’s relationship calculator says that we are not related by blood. I will always...
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My Grandma Was a Working Woman
Long before women burned their bras, my Grandma Shellabarger was a working woman. In fact, she worked most of her life. At first it was because her family couldn’t survive during the Depression on...
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One of the Highest Wage Earners in 1940
Another entry in my Labor Day photo series… One of the interesting things about going through the 1940 census is seeing how much money my relatives were earning in 1939. For the most part, my...
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Recovering Family Photographs through School Yearbooks
I have very few photographs from my maternal grandmother’s side of the tree. While there are plenty of photographs of my grandmother, Anna (Jackson) Shellabarger, there are only a handful of her...
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Mystery Photo: Who are the Bride and Groom from Oakland?
This wedding photograph came my way a few months ago. The photograph was taken around 1910-1915 in Oakland, California. We do not know who the bride and groom are but there are some clues. Could...
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Mystery Photo Solved: Jose Medeiros and Bertha Pacheco
I’m excited in a way that only genealogists will understand. In Mystery Photo of the Week, I posted a photo of an unidentified bride and groom. I am happy to say that the photo has now been identified!...
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Mystery Photo: Who is the Young Man Possibly from Hawaii?
I’ve got another photo mystery for you this week. This comes from the collection of a Bonita and de Braga cousin. The photo is of an unknown young man all dress up and ready to go. Perhaps it is...
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Mystery Photo: Who is This Little Portuguese Girl?
This week’s mystery photo is actually two photos involving the same unknown little girl. These were in the collection of Marie Gloria (Bonita) Medeiros, my grandfather’s cousin. They were shown to me...
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Mystery Photo of the Week: Are These Three People Portuguese Hawaiians?
This week’s mystery photo comes from the collection of Marie Gloria (Bonita) Medeiros thanks to her granddaughter. The Bonita’s were from Kauai, Hawaii, Monterey County, CA, and Oakland, CA. They had...
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Mystery Photo of the Week from September Solved!
On 9 September 2015, I posted this Mystery Photo of the Week. There were two photographs of a little girl whose name was forgotten. One was her confirmation photo. The other was a photograph with two...
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Mystery Photo of the Week: Who are These Children?
I am back with another Mystery Photo of the Week. Can you help us identify these children? How about pinning down the time frame? This one comes from the collection of my cousin, Bobbie. Three...
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A Small Box of Old Film Negatives: Once Lost, Now Found
Years ago, I found two old rolls of uncut black and white film negatives in one of my dad’s old shoe boxes. The negatives were rolled around a thin sheet of paper in the Kodak box they came in. They...
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You Should Scrutinize Photo Suggestions From Ancestry Family Trees
One of the most wonderful things when working on online trees is finding that someone has a photograph of your ancestor. It’s even more special when that is the first photo you’ve ever seen of this...
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