The theme for this week’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge is “Close To Home”. All of my great grandparents ended up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so they were all fairly close to the home I grew up in. But, this is about my Grandma Lassalle, Anna (Mazeres) Lassalle, and how she moved…
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52 Ancestors: My Grandma Helped the Homeless
The topic for the 52 Ancestors challenge this week is “Good Deeds”. I was somewhat stymied. I have not done much property research on my ancestors. I’ve only found a couple of deeds and have written about those previously. I decided to go with the second meaning of this prompt and focused on someone who…
52 Ancestors: My Heart Belongs to Antonio Medeiros Cordeiro
It’s not what you think. The theme for the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge this week is Love. This can be interpreted in many ways. My heart belongs to Antonio Medeiros not because I have a weird crush on my ancestor, but because he expanded my tree by many generations. When my arthritis got…
52 Ancestors: The Longest Migration
This is week 6 of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. The theme is So Far Away. I decided to write about my great great grandfather, Jozimas de Braga, who had the longest migration of them all. I should note that my great grandmother, Maria (de Braga) Pacheco Smith, his daughter, also had a similar migration…
52 Ancestors: Rosa Boteilho was a Tough Woman
This is my entry for the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge, week 3: Tough Woman. It’s not easy to flesh out the stories of Azorean women. You are dealing with baptismal, marriage, and death records. That’s it. Often, women are elusive because of naming practices which involved taking a religious name rather than a…