Labor Day
On this holiday we celebrate the American worker and his or her contribution to our American life, but the holiday was actually born as a way to appease workers after a brutal crackdown on the workers and the union during …
Tag: Cole genealogy
Something New in the 1940 Census
Now that the 1940 census is more or less fully indexed I took a lazy woman’s stroll through some of our ancestor’s records. I wasn’t expecting much new information. My mother and mother-in-law both remembered that time and filled me …
Trip to Willamette Heritage Center
On Thursday, July 19th I was finally able to visit the Willamette Heritage Center and meet all of the people who have done so much for me. I have written about the wonderful file of 80 family photographs and their …
Not All Women Are Mothers
On this Mother’s Day 2012 my thoughts have turned to the women in our families who were not mothers. Today motherhood is a choice, many women both married and unmarried live fulfilling lives without children, but what about our ancestors. …
Where Young Ladies Lived
My mother-in-law, Marian Costello Cole, graduated from the University of Washington in 1936. She went off to San Francisco, rented an apartment with a friend, and went to work. She stayed in San Francisco until my father-in-law came to marry …