One of the best finds so far with the San Francisco Property Information Maps website is finding the houses that Patrick Dolan, my 4th great uncle, owned and lived in. Or, maybe I should say house…more on that later. Patrick Dolan lived at 809 Guerrero from at least 1880 to 1900. When he died in…
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Huge Find: San Francisco Property Information Map
Some of my best genealogy research adventures start with accidentally stumbling upon a website. It happened to me yesterday as I was doing research on a family business. I saw a link for San Francisco property records and decided to click on it. What I got was the “San Francisco Property Information Map” website. From…
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…
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. …