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Genealogy Research Journal #4, Entry #5 So Many Pieces and They Don’t Fit Together Normally, you start with a person’s adoptive parents but can’t find their birth parents. Helen’s adoptive parents turned out to be a pain in the butt to research. Jesuina or Jessie Fitkal appeared nowhere in the census. The surname Fitkal was…
Research Journal #4, Entry #4 We Know the Birth Parents, But Not the Adoptive Parents Helen’s birth parents were now clear. She really was the last child of Joao and Joana. But, who adopted her? I hadn’t found any clues about her adoptive parents except the cryptic name Zuweena. I took a look at some…
Genealogy Research journal #3, entry #3 Time to Look for Obituaries I had to start somewhere with my research on Helen Correia. Since there were five sets of Pacheco parents that Helen could belong to, it was important to firmly establish who her birth parents were. As she was thought to be one of the…
Genealogy Research Journal #4, Entry #2 Who is Helen Correia? Helen Correia’s name came up many times when talking to older cousins. She belonged to the Pacheco family, but because she was given away at a young age her story was murky. The names of both sets of parents were lost over time. Helen’s most…
Genealogy Research Journal #3, Entry #6 With this journal, we started with confusion over “Ida”. For now, we have answered the main question. We have concluded that there were two Ida’s. It turns out that Ida (Cosmer) Drew was not a Cosma or Jacinto da Camara at all. She was a Pavon (Pavao) who was…