Name: Catherine MCSWEGAN Sex: Female Father: Thomas MCSWEGAN-8485 (1845-1895) Mother: Catharine F. “Kate” KELLY-8479 (1851-1921) Individual Facts Birth Nov 1880 San Francisco, San Francisco Co., CA Alt. Name 4 Jul 1895 (about age 14) Kittie MCSWEEGAN Residence 1900 (about age 20) 317 Eighth St.; San Francisco, San Francisco Co., CA Alt. Name 5 Sep 1908…
Author: Melody Lassalle
Genealogist and writer. Creator of the Portuguese Hawaiian Genealogy and Heritage website, yourislandroutes.com
Viola (Jackson) Winter’s Individual Summary
(This is my Great Aunt. I don’t recall ever meeting her. Maybe I did when I was a child.) Name: Viola JACKSON Sex: Female Father: Harry Kenneth JACKSON (1871-1950) Mother: Margaret Mary JONES (1880-1965) Individual Facts Birth 18 Jun 1917 Oakland, Alameda Co., CA29 Residence bet 1918 and 1930 (between…
Ana Jacinta de Melo was a Fearless Female
[Fearless Females-Prompts for Women’s History Month–March 1st–A favorite female ancestor] I am not sure why but I’ve am drawn to my Great Great Grandmother, Ana Jacinta (de Melo) Pacheco. It may be what I don’t know as much as what I know. Ana was the daughter of Jose Francisco de Melo and Rosa Pimental. She…
The Satisfaction of Finding the Right Record
[This is an entry in my series Wedding Chapel Wednesday. This is the search for my grandmother’s cousin’s marriage records.] I’ve taken a detour from San Francisco deeds, which was my detour from Azorean church records. I became possessed with the desire to find San Francisco marriage records. So, I decided to work on those…
Learning More from an Azorean Death Record
Portuguese death records are called “obitos”. For most years, those obitos will be found in church records. If you’ve worked with the records of the 1800s, you know that most obitos offer very little information. They give the name of the deceased, the date of death, their age at death, what parish they were a…