My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun !! Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has another wonderful challenge for us this weekend: Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music!), is to: 1)  Jacqi Stevens recently suggested, in her blog post "The Networks of Life," the question "How did you get started in researching your genealogy?" 2)  This week, let's tell our "getting started in genealogy research" story. 3)  Tell us in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a comment on this blog post to lead us to your answers. I have written about the origins of my genealogy research. My friend, Susan, took me to Sutro Library in San Francisco so I could see what all this genealogy research fuss was. She was my children’s babysitter when they were young and every winter I would have to find a substitute ...

This is my second year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow . I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past . I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. My first foray into genealogy happened at Sutro Library in San Francisco. Sutro Library is a part of the California State Library and holds the original collection of former mayor, Adolph Sutro, who donated the collection in 1913. It also has a huge genealogical collection and the collection is now housed in the J. Paul Leonard Library at San Francisco State University. When I visited the library in the 1990s, it was housed in its own building on Winston Avenue. My friend, Susan, took me there one day. I had been wondering about genealogy research. She went on a yearly trip to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, where she would spend six full days doing genealogy research. How could someone do t...