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Hawaii was a different world. Pretty much from day one, interracial marriage was acceptable. When my Azorean ancestors arrived in 1882, it only took one generation for the women to marry Japanese, Hawaiian, and Filipino men. What was okay in Hawaii was not okay in California though. The law was very much against them. The…
Did you know that the University of Massachusetts has digitized Portuguese language newspapers? Did you know that this collection includes Portuguese language Hawaiian newspapers? Sometimes those Portuguese language newspapers are helpful and they lead to articles in English language newspapers. That’s how I learned about the Pacheco boys being the first on Kauai to sign…
My mom always said that she hated school. She was sent to Catholic School and didn’t care for the strictness of the nuns. Yet, my mom was the first one in her family to graduate and she went on to be a successful secretary, bookkeeper, and office manager. So, she must have have learned something…
Okay, they didn’t really pick their surname out of a hat, but they might as well have. When I began researching the Pacheco family who went from Achada, Nordeste, Sao Miguel Island, Azores to Kilauea, Kauai, Hawaii, I was told that some of them were known by Algrava or Algarva depending on who I talked…
Some immigration paths are linear. Many of my Azoreans relatives left for Hawaii or Massachusetts between 1880 and 1900. Once they migrated, they made their new country their home. End of story. But one of my Azorean relatives took a more indirect route to the United States. And, if the records are to be trusted,…