I know very little about my mother's side of the family. That's mostly because she doesn't know much about her family.
 

My mother	Gloria Elaine Marcher was born on November 21, 1914 in Los Angeles to Mary Barnes Marcher and George Marcher. She was an only child, although she had a brother who died before she was born.  George Marcher was born in on a farm near Tomah, Wisconsin around 1880. He would hide in the barn after finishing his chores in order to read, otherwise his strict father would give him more chores to do. He graduated from high school about 1898 and became a jewler. He died around 1967 at the age of 86 or 87. Mary Barnes, my mother's mother, was born near Topeka, Kansas around 1881. I don't know much about her, other than my mother adored her and says she had a very sweet personality. My mother thinks that her mother's mother's name was Sarah Martindale. Mom thinks her mother worked for a big railroad tycoon as a secretary during the time when the railroads were being built across the country. I never met my Grandma Marcher, as she died before I was born. I remember Mom saying "She was born in March (23rd), got married in March (10th) and died in March (17th)." She also married a Marcher. I was born about 9 months after her death. She was almost 69 when she died. My mother graduated from Los Angeles' Fairfax High school in 1932. She received an A.A. degree from Los Angeles Junior College 2 years later. Then she went to work as a clerk in the Employment Department at Lockheed in Burbank. She later worked in the Pacific Coast office of J.J. Newbury, a five & dime store chain. She loved to go on trips with the Sierra club. She remembers going to to Bryce and Zion Canyons and to Monument Valley in Utah. She went to Alaska on her own around 1935. First she went by train to Vancouver, where she took a boat to Victoria. There she boarded the Prince Rupert steamship on the Inside Passage to Anchorage, Alaska. My sister Linda was born in April of 1943, during World War II, when my parents lived on 29th Avenue near Foothill in Oakland. Four years later my sister Shirley was born when the family lived on Edgerley Street in Oakland.   I was born after they moved to Meekland Avenue in Hayward. That's where I grew up, but I was born in Merritt Hospital in Oakland.
"Heinz 57"	* "My mom used to say ..." * Why does Heinz ketchup say "57 varieties"?
English	My mother's father's side was mostly English. Since English culture is probably familiar to most people in the United States, I won't go much into my English background. At least, not for now.
Welsh	On my maternal grandmother's side I am part Welsh. But that's all I know. Welsh settlement in Kansas - The St. David's Welsh Society of Greater Kansas City  Welsh Settlements in Kansas
French Huguenot	My mother's mother's was also part French Huguenot. My mother doesn't know anything else about that part of our heritage. She says there may be other nationalities on her mother's side, too, but she has no idea what they might be. French Huguenots in the United States French Huguenots in Kansas