My quest to find descendants of John Joseph Jones and Mary Jane Haywards so as to work out some of my DNA connections has hit another wall. Jeanette (Jones) Walther was their last child I needed to research. It appears she died childless. The Three Children of John Charles Jones and Margaret Coffin John Charles…
Category: About My Ancestors
I Didn’t Plan to Research the Whole Village of Maia
I didn’t plan on researching the whole village. No, really. I didn’t. I started out following the trail of my great grandmother, Maria (de Braga) Pacheco Smith, in Maia like a good genealogist. Maia is a village on Sao Miguel Island in the Azores. I found more ancestors and added more lines. I found…
SNGF: The Presidents in Our Lifetime
Randy has a brand new challenge up for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. Who has been president in my life, my parents lives, and my grandparents lives. One question always leads to another. I started to think about how only about half of the presidents directly affected the lives of my ancestors. My first ancestors didn’t…
The Case for Sharing Your Genealogy Work: Proving Manuel Melo Castanho is Related
My mom used to tell me that sharing was good especially when my siblings and I were fighting over over a toy. Not only is sharing good for siblings, it’s good for genealogists. Case in point, I’ve confirmed the relationship of a man on a “Fiche de Emigrante” card all because I posted a link…
Finding the Castera Family of Lasseube, France
After several weeks of research, I have been able to find the parents of my previously known ancestors in Lasseube, France into the early 1700s…except one pair. I was having a heck of a time finding the parents of Jean Caset dit Castera. It annoyed the heck out of me. Why couldn’t I find them? …