Genealogy, History, Heritage, How To
Antonio Pacheco has confounded me for a long time. Of the eight children of Jacintho Pacheco and Anna Jacinta de Mello, he is the only one I could not find a baptismal record for. Records may be missing, but DNA doesn’t lie. Antonio is my great great uncle. Questions About His Birth I’ve checked multiple…
The New York Times has created a nifty map. It shows migrations within the United States in 1900, 1950, and 2012. New Insights into Migration Patterns I love these little insights into the world. It is especially interesting when we can compare o a time when our ancestors were in a certain place at a…
It is the 140 year anniversary of the first Portuguese contract laborers arriving in Hawaii to work on sugar plantations. After reading Portuguese celebrate 140 years since first immigrants arrive I realized that there’s a couple of things that they got wrong. In fact, these misrepresentations are things many people believe about their Portuguese immigrant…
Browsing FamilySearch.org this week I found a new to me database. The Hawaii, Kauai County Obituaries, 1982-2010 have been digitized and are available online for free. What You’ll Find in This Database The source material is original newspaper obituaries. I found copies of original obituaries and some transcriptions. It’s possible that the transcriptions are web…
I originally tested with FTDNA in 2014. Then, I uploaded my files to MyHeritageDNA, GEDMatch, and LivingDNA. Recently, a cousin sent me an AncestryDNA kit. I’m almost everywhere! Or, at least, my DNA is. These are my impression of AncestryDNA after my results went live 30 September 2018. There are So Many People in AncestryDNA…