For all those who are mystery readers/lovers, I came across this video and I knew you all would love it as much as I do. Although this isn’t really a photo for wordless Wednesday, I though it was a wonderfully made, artfully thought out psa and yes, it is genealogy related.
Enjoy!
Tricia
Well this month starts another chapter in getting the information for my submission for the NGS Family History Writing Contest.
This month is my interviewing month. This is the month that I planned on interviewing several family members. The first on my list, is my Aunt. She will be 100 years young in April and I am anxious to interview her. Although she does speak English, I will have my dad, her younger brother, there at the interview. I know that she is more comfortable not only having my dad around, but also speaking Spanish. I am hoping that she reveals a lot of stories of her immigration to this country and of my grandparents when the family was first starting out.
The other items on my aspirations list is the following:
Indexing: I have signed up and been approved as a 1940 Census Ambassador. I am excited to help create the index list for the 1940 Census. You can help too. Just click on the badge above and sign up to help. We need all the help we can get to get the index to the public sooner.
Brickwalls: Last Saturday I broke through my brickwall that I had with my submission for the writing contest. You can read about it here. Now that I know my grandmother’s correct full name. I need to research her possible parents and her possible siblings. In order to do this, I will need to pull some microfilm from the Family History Library and go through them to find the siblings baptism records. I also need to still search for and find the baptism record for my grandmother as well.
So those are my aspirations for this month. What are you planning for the month of March?
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending John Schmal’s Researching Your Mexican Roots: Following the Paper Trail at the West Los Angeles Family History Library. In this class, I learned the highest priority items needed to start a search in Mexico. It was a real eye opener. I also learned a few facts about the Mexican state of Zacatecas (where my grandparents were from) and it helped in breaking down my brickwall on my grandmother. I was so very happy to have been searching some of the records on the Family Search website and found my grandparents marriage license!
This marriage license was a treasure trove of information, some that I had and it was verified and some that was new to me. It verified that my great-grandfather, Salome Luna, had passed, but I didn’t know that he had passed before my grandparents were married. It also verified that my grandmother’s father was Esteban Robles, but I found out that my great-grandmother, previously only known as Pabla, was actually Paula Esparza. So I have found my maternal great-grandmother!
This information has led me to search for any event for Esteban Robles and Paula Esparza. I found two more children that were born to an Esteban Robles and Paula Esparza. There is a possibility that these two boys are my grandmother’s brothers. The only way to find out is to order the film and look at their baptism certificate and see where they were born. If it turns out to be her brothers, it will also tell me who my great-great-grandparents are as they are usually listed as well. I will be ordering those films soon!
This is the same family that I am working on for my entry into the NGS Family History Writing contest. Although I was able to break through my brick wall, I wasn’t able to interview as much of the 3rd generation that I had planned. I will have to add that to next month to make up for it. All in all, it was a spectacular weekend with a great brickwall buster to boot!!!
