[Note: I am participating in the blog prompt series The Book of Me, Written by You created by Julie Goucher at the Angler’s Rest blog. The project runs for 15 months with new prompts each week. I hope you’ll enjoy reading my responses each week.] This weeks prompt: Answer the question Who Are You? twenty…
Author: Melody Lassalle
Genealogist and writer. Creator of the Portuguese Hawaiian Genealogy and Heritage website, yourislandroutes.com
More I learn about Maria da Ponte the less it makes sense
I think there must be some genealogy law that for certain people the more information you compile the less it all seems to fit together. Today, I’m working on Maria dos Anjos Bonita who married Jose de Ponte. And, now that I’ve pieced the family together, I have more questions than answers. Maria was the…
Further proof my relatives could not spell their own names
After I found the letter written by Theodore Pacheco in the Garden Island newspaper, I decided to see if there was a World War I draft registration card for him. Sure enough, I found one. I am not sure how I missed it the first time, except for the peculiar middle name. The person who…
The Geniaus Blogger’s Geneameme
It is Natural Family History Month in Australia and an Australian blogger has started a meme with several questions for genealogy bloggers. I thought I’d take part, so here are my answers: What are the titles and URLs of your genealogy blog/s? — My genealogy blog is The Research Journal (this blog). I also run…
A Letter from after the War
I found a gem in the Garden Island Newspaper this evening. It is a letter from Theodore Pacheco to his parents, Francisco Pacheco and Alexandria de Caires. Theodore was stationed in Bourges, France in 1919, after the war ended. The letter details what Theodore experienced in the small town the day the German’s stopped fighting. …