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My Grandma Was a Working Woman
Long before women burned their bras, my Grandma Shellabarger was a working woman. In fact, she worked most of her life. At first it was because her family couldn’t survive during the Depression on...
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One of the Highest Wage Earners in 1940
Another entry in my Labor Day photo series… One of the interesting things about going through the 1940 census is seeing how much money my relatives were earning in 1939. For the most part, my...
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Women Worked Too!
[Originally posted on YourIslandRoutes.com. Reposted for Fearless Females--Women's History Month, March 12th: Working Girl] After piling over my research notes for the last 10 or more years, I’ve come...
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My Relatives At Work: A Labor Day Photo Series
I posted this series in 2012. Since I haven’t written anything on Labor Day I thought I would repost it. Happy Labor Day Everyone! Yesterday, I got the idea to search out some photographs of my...
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SNGF: My Ancestors Occupations
Randy Seaver has a new challenge up for this week’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. This week the focus is ancestor occupations. I’ll start with my parents like Randy did and work back to my great...
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52 Ancestors, Week 39: My Dad, Ace Paperboy
Wow! I really drew a blank on this one. You’d think with the decades that I’ve researched my ancestors I’d easily have found an unusual record. Part of the problem is that my ancestors jump the pond...
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We Shouldn’t Judge Our Ancestors By Today’s Standards: The Reality of Work...
An interesting conversation broke out in the Portuguese Hawaiian group on Facebook over the role foremen and lunas played on plantations in Hawaii. Lunas and foremen were the ones who kept workers in...
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52 Ancestors: A Branch Of My French Tree In Spain
A few years ago, I found a Casaux/Lacrouts family tree on MyHeritage which I believed was related to me. Unfortunately, the tree was private and I got no response to my PM. I found a snippet of this...
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52 Ancestors: Grandma Having Fun At Work
I found this picture after my grandma, Anna (Jackson) Shellabarger, passed away, so I never got to ask her about it. All I know is she is at work in San Diego, California at the Naval Air Station where...
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