You’ve waiting a long time for the next journal. My sincere apologies! Hopefully, it was worth the wait. Journal #7 takes us to the Boisvert family of New York who have French Canadian heritage.
Author: Melody Lassalle
Genealogist and writer. Creator of the Portuguese Hawaiian Genealogy and Heritage website, yourislandroutes.com
Research Journals 1-6
In January, I completed research journal #6. This is a recap of all the research journals I have posted so far. Each journal starts at the bottom of the page and may carry over into the next month. Look in the left hand column under archive to find the following month’s entries. These are the…
Finding Felicianno
[Research Journal #6, Entry #12] I started on the film with 1820 and worked backwards.As I went further back I noticed a problem. Felicianno’s parents were Joao de Mello and Maria Theresa. There appeared to be two couples of this name who had kids at the same time in Maia. One group was from Maia…
Settling on a Date
[Research Journal #6, Entry #11] I needed to figure out just how old Felicianno and his siblings were. I went back to the marriage records starting with Felicianno and Rosa’s marriage in 1840. I didn’t hit a sibling until 1837 when I found Francisca da Conceicao de Mello marrying Elias Pacheco. I kept going. Each…
Seu Juris
[Research Journal #6, Entry #10] As you may recall, I found an interesting note in the baptismal records. In a couple of entries where Felicianno was listed as a godparent, his name was followed by the term “seu juris”. I asked other Portuguese genealogists what this term meant. Seu juris roughly “I swear” or “I…