Name Our Newsletter contest!

Newsletter title competition!

Our newsletter editor, Sara Hayden, thought it would be nice to have an official title for our SMCGS Newsletter.  Can you suggest something which would reflect our California/Bay Area interests, or perhaps our SIGs, or our library at Cañada College?  Something special about San Mateo and its heritage?  

The San Mateo Historical Society journal is called "La Peninsula".  How about "La Redwood City Mud Flats"? or "Digital Diggings"?  No?  Roots Cellar and Der Blumenbaum are already taken.  

I'm sure you can come up with something suitable for us.  Post your answers here in "comments" or send them to publications@smcgs.org.

You wrote the stories!

Thirteen of you - a lucky number - wrote stories about your ancestors and childhood memories.  We heard about churchyard records and DNA surprises, vigilantes and treasured grandparents, moonshiners and sheriffs pursuing them, domestic implements and those who sold them, the Chicago fire and getting lost just walking around the block, traveling on the underground railway, and traveling by roller skate...and trying not to travel at all during a hurricane. 

I hope some more of you will be inspired to write stories of your own to share with family and friends. Or - who knows - publish it and send it out to the world.
Here are the stories:

  

Arden Anderson: A Graveyard Secret
Millie Clough: A Different DNA Surprise
Paul Council: Vigilantes
Marjorie Daehler: One of My Favorite Relative
Judy Darland: Hannah Ellena Hilden
Judy Darland: Everett L. Hobbs
Mike Davis: The Luck of the Draw
Carole Ford: A Tale of a Simple Sewing Needle
Leslie Friedman:  From Galicia to Missouri
John Shellabear Gleed: Grandpa Was There!
Esther Lucas: Look Both Ways
George Miller: Discovering the Path to Freedom
Pamela Lee Wong: skates
Pamela Lee Wong: green
Pamela Lee Wong: hammer
Sally Wood: The Great New England Hurricane of ‘38