Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending John Schmal’s Researching Your Mexican Roots: Following the Paper Trail at the West Los Angeles Family History Library. In this class, I learned the highest priority items needed to start a search in Mexico. It was a real eye opener. I also learned a few facts about the […]
Happy Anniversary and Valentine’s Day to my grandparents, Tiburcio and Vicenta Luna. Tiburcio and Vicenta Luna (Used with permission) When I obtained a copy of my grandfather’s Immigration file from the INS about 10 years ago, I found out that my grandfather had married my grandmother on Feburary 14, 1918. Happy Valentine’s Day and […]
For my February aspirations, I will be starting to focus on the 3rd generation of my NGS Family History Writing Contest submission family. Although it includes my aunts and uncles, my focus cannot be my dad (according to NGS contest rules). Instead, I will be focusing on one of my uncles. Although I have some […]
The updates are as follows: Contest – I looked at my family group sheets and the pedigree chart for this research line and realized that I have some on most everyone except for my grandmother, Vicenta Luna (Robles) who is the brick wall in this family line. I don’t know who her parents are or […]
Good Morning y’all! Its my day off and its a wonderful, beautiful day here in Southern California. Here is my list of updates for this past week. Volunteering – I have signed up and committed to index 100 pages by May. Well, on Monday, my day off, I completed 21 index pages and I am […]