April 15, 2007

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Check out your ancestor's tax records using the links at Cyndislist

GEM #1:  Great San Francisco Earthquake 

"Hello, Frisco" by Harvey Hindermeyer courtesy of U of Cal, Santa Barbara Library

Below: C. A. Burkett (on left) c. 1906

USGS website

The Virtual Museum of the city of SF

Remembering the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake an audio recording by NPR.

The San Francisco 1906 Earthquake Great Register 

BOOK:  Denial of Disaster: The Untold Story and Photographs of the San Francisco Earthquake

San Francisco 1906 Earthquake Marriage Project by sfgenealogy.com

GEM #2  Shake Up Your Research Stategy

Step 1: Locate the event on a Timeline History.com  This Day In History  Step 2:    Internet Searches 

1. Google (For Alerts see Episode 3)
2. Google Images  
3. Ancestry  Ebay (see Episode 3) 
4. State Historical Society 
5. State Archives 
6. Census - Find neighbors and do a quick Google & Ancestry search on them.   
7. YouTube.com (see Episode 4 for more info on using YouTube)