[Fearless Females #20…brick wall ancestor] One of the frustrating aspects of researching female lines is the lack of information that might be available about female ancestors. This can be complicated by naming practices and customs. One of my 5th Great Grandmother’s is Francisca Pacheco. Francisca is the last ancestor of my Pacheco line. The surname…
Category: About My Ancestors
Francisca (Mello) Pacheco’s Individual Summary
Unfortunately, the further we go back with Portuguese records, the less we can learn about our female ancestors. The only thing I can gather about Francisca is that that she was born, married, raised a family, and died in the same village–Maia. Some day I will go back to the parish records and I’ll find…
My Grandma Lassalle Could Do Anything with a Needle
[Fearless Females #18…Special Talents] My Grandma Lassalle was a bit of an old fashioned person. Anything she could make with her own hands she did. She was a craftswoman with a needle. She tatted, sewed, embroidered. All fine work she did up until her 80s. When I was a child, she made pajamas for all…
Fearless Females: Grandma Was A Radical!
[Fearless Females, 17th of March, Social Organizations and Groups…a report from 2011 Not really. But it makes for a great headline. LOL I don’t know what organizations my Grandma Shellabarger belonged to while raising her family. I don’t really think she had much time for them to tell you the truth. In the 1980s, she…
Catherine (Kelly) McSwegan’s Individual Summary
Catharine (Kelly) McSwegan was my 3rd Great Aunt. Catharine’s husband, Thomas McSwegan, was a plasterer. He was seriously hurt on the job in the mid-1890s. He died at the age of 50 from the those injuries in 1895. Catherine had 9 children, 3 of them born after 1890. One born a year before Thomas died….