Sacramento
GeneaBlogie Grand Genealogy Journey – Day 1: Sacramento
Sacramento has often been overlooked by visitors to Northern California; the same visitors are frequently mesmerized by the city some 90 miles away called San Francisco. Dissing Sacramento used to be a favorite pastime of the cognoscenti. “It’s too hot!” “It’s too dry!” “It’s too flat!” “It’s got no culture!” Even the California Supreme Court refuses to have its …
June 30, 2010 Wednesday at 2:50 pm
The Grand Genealogy Journey 2010 (Virtual Edition) Starts Anew
Believe it or don’t, but it’s been three years since the Big Train Trip. I’m really ready to go again, but circumstances currently won’t allow that. So we started to lay out our virtual genealogical dream trip traveling via Amtrak and other conveyances. We ran into a set of difficulties soon after the beginning of the trip. As a result, …
June 30, 2010 Wednesday at 2:34 pm
The Grand Genealogy Journey (Virtual) Starts Saturday
Join us here Saturday p.m. for the start of the GeneaBlogie Grand Genealogy Journey! It’ll kick off with a tour of the California Railroad Museum in Sacramento, located at one of the most historic sites in American railroad history. Then, we’ll learn some more history about Sacramento and the Sierra foothill communities that are nearby. Finally, we board Amtrak’s California …
May 6, 2010 Thursday at 9:17 pm
Mary Geraldine Sekul, 1948-2008
A week ago, I was not expecting to write about Mary Sekul at all, ever, and especially not in this forum. Then again, a week ago, Mary Sekul was not expecting to be written about, and certainly not in the places and ways she’s been written about in the past few days. “An artist, poet, scholar, friend, sister, and mother” …
March 15, 2008 Saturday at 7:36 pm
Sacramento African-American Genealogy Seminar
The Sacramento Regional Family History Center will hold its third annual seminar on African-American genealogy on Saturday, March 8, 2008. Registration is $20 with lunch, or $15 without lunch. Preference will be given to advance registrants. The Sacramento Regional Family History Center is located at 2745 Eastern Ave in Arden-Arcade. The center’s phone number is 916-487-2090. It’s open on Tuesdays …
February 17, 2008 Sunday at 5:42 pm
Severe Weather in Northern California
One of the worst storms in decades has battered Northern California and the Sierra Nevada today.Starting at about 4 a.m. PST, wind gusts of more than 100 mph in the mountains and up to 75 mph on the valley floor ushered in heavy rains. There have been power outages throughout the day in the Sacramento metro area. Telephone and cable …
January 4, 2008 Friday at 9:08 pm
