Sunday, my daughter and I visited La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, the first Mexican American Cultural Center in Downtown Los Angeles. This cultural center had a wonderful exhibit in which we learned the history of California. We learned that when the U.S. won the war against Mexico, it obtained California through the treaty of […]
Last night, I was cleaning up my desk/computer area and came across some micro-cassettes that I had used to interview relatives about my family history. I found one micro-cassette that had an interview of one of my paternal aunts and it reminded me that I wanted to try to convert all of my micro-cassettes with genealogical information on […]
Last weekend was a really nice one, although it felt a bit short. 🙂 One of the brights spots of the weekend was a phone conversation I had with my mom regarding her genealogy research. A little backstory first: when I was first bit with the genealogy bug and started asking my mom questions, she […]
I made a trip to the Los Angeles Superior Court on my lunch break one day. My goal was to find out the case number of my mother and father-in-law’s divorce. I was hoping to look at their divorce file to find the date they were married and any other pertinent information about them. I […]
Although this is my first Wordless Wednesday post, I don’t think it will be complete wordless. This photo is of my Aunt and Uncles 2nd Grade Class photo. Although it’s the 2nd Grade class, my Uncle was a year or two older than my Aunt . I don’t know exactly where this school is located […]
