Dear Reader,
I am a Native Californian. I started my journey as a genealogist years ago when I discovered a most fascinating blank family tree in a magazine. Since then, I have faithfully attempted to fill in the blank spaces of that original family tree chart. There are now extensive branches on that chart, thanks to my early, youthful and enthusiastic efforts. Nowadays I spend most of my genealogical time writing about the branch of my family to which I feel closest, the Western settlers, those ancestors who pioneered their way to California before the railroads in order to explore the gold fields.
This genealogy blog has evolved fragmentarily but surely, just like my family tree. As such it contains various opinion pieces and, too, the results of a family history research project conducted in downtown San Francisco. I have written a few posts about heraldry, the study of coat arms. I have reached directly into my family archive for several of the posts -- a letter and a postcard and old voter registration data which I think you may find interesting. This is the West and these are the words of a Westerner. I have enjoyed writing them; I hope you will enjoy reading them.
Best Regards.
I am a Native Californian. I started my journey as a genealogist years ago when I discovered a most fascinating blank family tree in a magazine. Since then, I have faithfully attempted to fill in the blank spaces of that original family tree chart. There are now extensive branches on that chart, thanks to my early, youthful and enthusiastic efforts. Nowadays I spend most of my genealogical time writing about the branch of my family to which I feel closest, the Western settlers, those ancestors who pioneered their way to California before the railroads in order to explore the gold fields.
This genealogy blog has evolved fragmentarily but surely, just like my family tree. As such it contains various opinion pieces and, too, the results of a family history research project conducted in downtown San Francisco. I have written a few posts about heraldry, the study of coat arms. I have reached directly into my family archive for several of the posts -- a letter and a postcard and old voter registration data which I think you may find interesting. This is the West and these are the words of a Westerner. I have enjoyed writing them; I hope you will enjoy reading them.
Best Regards.