SMCGS Databases Online : Sole Traders

The debut of San Mateo County Genealogical Society's new website brings with it the opportunity to tout some of our great SMCGS offerings.  Over the next few months we will highlight some of the great indexes we have created over the years, starting with our newest.  

Barry Goyette has put together an index of the Register of Separate Property of Married Women and Sole Traders 1856-1913.  While I could tell you about the wonders of California's Sole Traders law, why redo what Judy G. Russell, The Legal Genealogist, does much better.  In two posts published the week of her recent seminar at SMCGS she explained the law and gave examples of what the records might tell you.

Reprise: California’s sole traders - Judy G. Russell, The Legal Genealogist October 30, 2014  

Reprise: Separate property, separate debts - Judy G. Russell, The Legal Genealogist  October 31, 2014

You can the index here:

Index to San Mateo County Sole Traders Register - Barry Goyette 2014

And I am very happy to tell you that you do not need to order these records from the county!!!!  They are available on FamilySearch.  Be sure to start with a page number from the index to search through these browseable records.

 Separate property of married women and sole traders vol 1 1856-1913

San Mateo County Cemeteries: St. Anthony's

Pescadero 

Located on the top of the hill above Pescadero on Stage Road just North of North Street, Saint Anthony's Cemetery dates back to 1883. Halloween weekend was a great time to visit, There were pumpkins, orange flower arrangements and even a few more creative decorations throughout the cemetery, brightening up what is generally a dry pioneer cemetery.

“In 1833, Don Juan Jose Gonzales received the Rancho Pescadero, or San Antonio, as it was officially known, from Governor Figueroa…On June 10th, 1868, James McCormick, Sr. furnished a sum of money to purchase a lot for the Catholic Church (William McCormick and Eli D. Moore procured the catholic cemetery there in 1876) (1). 

You will find some of the early settlers on the coast here. Among them the Brazils, the Moores, the McCormicks and the Smiths.  This is still an active cemetery so you will also find new burials. Look around for a few very creative tombstones (surely subject to copyright restrictions).  

St. Anthony's Church is located nearby on North Street.

• Saint Anthony's Cemetery is part of the Diocese of San Francisco. 
• Find - A Grave - Saint Anthony's lists 130 burials with 93% photographed
• Flickr - St. Anthony's Cemetery
• Pescadero 
• A Cemetery of Naked Ladies in Pescadero CA

Saint Anthony’s Cemetery  

Stage Road 

Pescadero, CA 94060

(650) 712-1679   - Office Hours by Appointment Only  -  Cemetery Hours 8 a.m. to Sunset

Latitude: 37.2589, Longitude: -122.3819

Mailing Address

P.O. Box 1577
Colma, CA 940l4-0577

Find-A-Grave - Mt. Hope  lists 318 burials with 96% photographed

(1) Taken from the 100 years commemorative booklet published in 1968 for Our Lady of the Pillar Parish and St. Anthony’s Mission Church

Digging for Roots Online: R. I. P. Google’s Tilde

By Dennis L. Maness, MLS

   

Some of you (most of you?) read that title and thought “Tilde?”.

In an earlier blog post in 2012 on the subject of genealogy books online I wrote:

 “Quick Search Tip—On Google the use of the tilde “~” (it’s on the top of the upper left key on my keyboard) means that the search will include synonyms of the word you’re searching for. For instance “~genealogy” will include the words “family history”, “family tree” “vital records” “genealogical” “surname” and probably many more in your search.”

The news that this is now no longer available as a search operator on Google is one of the reasons I read genealogy blogs. I recently read the October 9, 2014 Lisa Louise Cooke’s “Genealogy Gems” blog  that announced that the tilde had gone away.

Apparently this happened, with no notice, sometime before June 15, 2013 so all my searches using the tilde since then have been misleading.  Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Why did Google use the tilde? In math, the “~” symbol means “is similar to.” The tilde told Google to search for pages that are synonyms or similar to the term that follows. But I digress.

Now we will have to go back to using (genealogy OR geneology OR “family history” OR genealogical) ad infinitum.

There is a list of Google’s current Search Operators at Search Operators  and 

Punctuation, Symbols and Operators in Search.

I missed the “+” sign when Google “deprecated” it (the term they use) and now this. Oh well, life goes on.

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Remember, as Legacy Family Tree’s Geoff Rasmussen says,

“Life is short; do genealogy first!”