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Excellent article by an excellent author - thanks for the heads up on this important immigration/cultural/historical topic.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-see2-2009aug02,0,2531954.story   

A most interesting article by Lisa See.

Thanks, Mary, for the recommendation. I totally agree with your comments. Actually I'm thinking of doing a census run on the family!!! 

Strictly a Depression "baby" from the latter-half of the 30s, I was delighted reading the book from beginning to end and could barely stand to lay it down. Though I was a small-town (5000) product, I still had experienced so many of the things Mildred Armstrong remembers with such clarity and warmth from her years on a working farm. It was wonderful re-visiting some of my own memories, via her grand command of English and clear love of writing.

And I just loved hearing about the things I'd never known nor done: making homemade marshmallows! cooking up "Headcheese"!!! almost getting stranded in an Iowa blizzard!

If anyone else would like to enjoy this excellent book, you can do so on your library card:
Arroyo Grande: 1 copy
Carpinteria: 1
Goleta: 3
Montecito: 1
Morro Bay: 1
Santa Barbara Central: 1
Solvang: 1
The author's full name: Mildred Armstrong KALISH

One last teaser: you'll get to learn about the Kinardly breed of dog. Yes, that one was new to me, too.

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Thank you for contributing! I recently enjoyed doing research in the Ballard cemetery. The old section is so beautiful and has many historical and unusual headstones. Nothing beats, though, doing research at 2 in the morning, responding to a query, and getting an immediate response! I figure when genealogists can't sleep, they research!

[ahh, I got a message saying "Warning: this topic has not been posted in for at least 120 days. Unless you're sure you want to reply, please consider starting a new topic." !!!]

Well....since this will be my FIRST posting, and I like THIS multiple choice question, I'm SURE I want to reply:

Sorry, I can't check off SLC....since I've never been there to research; I no longer have a favorite aunt WITH an attic for prowling; and I can't decide between the other three, which are all favorites, so I'll put my #1 vote for:
•ANYWHERE there are records to be searched, ESPECIALLY if any of my ancestors or their collaterals WILL BE FOUND in those records!

Just beginning to find some threads on my mother's side.  My mother, Kate Elliot Turner, was daughter of Kate Elliot Trowbridge Turner.  In turn, her parents were Nelson Seymour Trowbridge (of Berkeley) and Jessie Catherine ("Kate") Clayton Trowbridge.  Here the mystery begins:  Kate's father was Joshua Elliott Clayton, but her mother is simply noted as Naomi B, native of Alabama, and died in Nevada.  Several generations of Claytons seem to have moved all around the south.  J.E. Clayton was born in 1820 in N.C. and died in 1889 in Montana; he is buried in Portland, OR.  He married Naomi some time before 1850, and set out for the west in 1850.

I would love to hear if any of this hooks in with anybody else's research.

that's great :-)
happy to pass it on,
Rosa

I am looking for a bio of Bernarda Ruiz, the woman who helped negotiate the Treaty of Cahuenga with Pio Pico and John C. Fremont in January of 1847.  Can someone help?  Thanks.

I do mean to brag about this match.  This man, I'll call him Mike, lives within 20 miles from my family's origin in England, or the first known place I can find as far back as 1715 or so. It is not an exact match (within 5 markers) but close enough to be considered a "match."  However, and this is where the rub comes in, he does not know who his paternal grandfather was.  His "nan," his grandmother, was not married to the father of her child, Mike's father. He only took the 67-marker YDNA test to see what would happen.  Mike found me through FTDNA, and now I am helping him by guiding him to vital and church records in his area. 

I started with the 37-marker, and we matched there. Mike persuaded me to get an upgrade to the 67-marker test, and we matched there.  You can now get both the 37-marker YDNA and the mtDNA test kits  at half-price of $119 until June 30, 2009.  So hurry now and click on this link and join our group for the discount and order your kits. http://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=SantaBarbaraCounty.
Dorothy O.

  I like his Virginia research blog even better than the genealogy lessons. Good call!
http://www.virginiafamilytree.com/
Thanks!
Virginia