Archive for 'Ancestral Homes' Category
My Grandparent’s House on E. 25th Street
25 August 2008As 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 [...]
Reading and Commenting on Genealogy Blogs
14 August 2008One of my challenges from the Genea Blogger Games was to find a new genealogy blog, then leave a comment. This seemed like a pretty easy thing to do until I realized that their were a gazillion genealogy blogs!
At first, I roamed the web aimlessly. I thought I might find a blog related to [...]