Wisdom from our elders....

Last weekend, Ancestry .com had a special to allow anyone to view their immigration records for free. So I took advantage of it and tried to find as many of my great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents that I could, along with some other relatives. They had boat/passenger records and naturalization records available.

Kinue Iwasa on the passenger list from the Persia Maru on May 16, 1917

Well then of course they send an email a couple of days later saying they were offering a discount deal for membership 20% off, so I took my pennies in and took advantage of that so now I have the membership to do even more research. I’m looking forward to finally finishing and updating my genealogy records as much as I can. And this will give me something else to do with my time.


Look forward to summer pictures being posted later in the week…

Tidbits by Thomas: When I was in Sacramento in July, I went to see my friends’ (Jimmy and Brandon) grandma, Mama Choncha. On the way out of her house we were talking about how substituting was. She told me to keep the kids in line. I told her I would try to. She responded back with a quote I still have not forgotten, “If you’re going to try, you might as well succeed.”