San Francisco 1906
Years ago I went out with a boy who was very interested in the San Francisco Earthquake. He mentioned there was a fine thread running through San Francisco architecturally. The great earthquake of 1906 left many buildings standing that the fire did not reach and they are intermingled with new buildings of that era and then of course newer buildings over the decades. Although I never looked into it, it did fascinate me and I have often wondered about it. Over this past weekend I spent quite a bit of time looking at old census records that have been recently released. I can see why I was unable to find my grandfather's family in the 1900 census record back in the 70's when I did a lot of research on microfilm. The spelling of every one of their name is wrong. Sometimes both names. When I looked at the original record I could see that a large smudge practically wiped out the front half of the record and several above and below them....