My Trails into the Past

Outside activities included a trip to Sacramento, phenology, John Muir Earth Day Birthday, and a concert.   Genealogy Genealogy Volunteer/Work: I drove up to Sacramento to present "How to Leave Your Genealogy" to the Sacramento Association of Genealogy. They were very receptive to the talk, asked lots of questions, and share additional suggestions. Then I drove to the Oakland FamilySearch Center and gave the presentation "Probate Records: More Than Wills." I worked on accessions at the History Center, entering them into PastPerfect. I got the new login and password for the Online Archive of California and will work on updating collections next. On Thursday, I took minutes of the board meeting. I turned in my press release committee report for the upcoming BCG board meeting.    I also attended the Sonoma County Genealogical Society’s board meeting and took minutes. Yeah, we have a member who will take over the secretary position in July. I’m retiring from...

The first half of this month’s study is on the Wollenweber family, German ancestors of my husband’s paternal line. After creating a timeline for Ludwig Wilhelm (Louis W.) Wollenweber, it is time to utilize full-text search at FamilySearch . I have found multiple spellings of his surname, so I will be methodological in searching using the different spelling variations. Full-text search is very specific and does not usually find variations. I will search by location, starting with Kentucky, since he was in Louisville the longest. The names searched on were Wollenweber, Wallenweber, Woolenweber, Wollenwebber, and W*weber in Jefferson County, Kentucky Newspapers Several articles from Louisville newspapers were returned. I had no idea FamilySearch had digital newspapers, so this was a pleasant surprise. Following the FamilySearch searching, I will also search in newspapers. Although I found them randomly by date, these are now listed in chronological order. 21 Oct 1859. An untitled a...

Muriel Martha Gilbert, the only daughter of Mary Martha Gleeson and Warren Edmond Gilbert, was born on 19 October 1895 in San Francisco, California. [1] She died 11 May 1956 in Los Angeles, and is buried at Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles. [2] She lived with her parents her whole life and never married. I have a photo of her, her parents, my grandmother, my aunt, Lorene, and my grandmother's father, taken in 1923/24. My grandmother and Muriel were first cousins.  Warren, Mary Martha, Anna Hork, Lorene Hork, Muriel, John H. Sullivan In 1915, the family moved to Elsinore Valley, where her father was involved in real estate. She offered herself as a teacher of the piano by placing an ad in the paper. [3] She taught beginners as well as more advanced students, using Mrs. Crosby Adams method. [4] Juliette Graves Adams and her husband Crosby Adams established the Crosby Adams School in Chicago which included teacher-training in public school music, and also offered programs in instr...

This week I pulled records from the Contra Costa County court office and county recorder’s office for a client, hiked in Tilden Park, attended Train Club meeting, and picked up trash at McNabney Marsh in the rain for the Mt View Sanitary District and the Contra Costa County Resource Conservation District. I also pulled weeds in my own garden and this week’s weed pulling will be easier due to the rain we got the past three days.   Genealogy Genealogy Volunteer/Work: I got to visit the new county court records office this week though I went to the wrong courthouse at first. Their system of retrieval is so much faster now with multiple windows, numbered tickets, and records that are digitized. I took care of some queries at the History Center, focusing mostly on court records. I also entered the new donations into the accession book. Next, I’ll enter them into PastPerfect. I have a stack of items to file the next time I’m in.    Genealogy Meetings:  I attended...