[Fearless Females #16…Who would you have lunch with?] It took me some time to decide who in my family tree I would have a lunch date with. I’ve settled on my most mysterious female ancestor, Ana Jacinta (de Melo) Pacheco. Ana was from the town of Achada on Sao Miguel Island. She was the daughter…
Category: About My Ancestors
Six Word Memoirs
[Fearless Females, Prompts for Women’s History Month, March 15th–Write a sex-word memoir tribute to one of your female ancestors. Did you know that I have already written a six-word memoir? It was published in the book “Not Quite What I was Planning”–a book filled with six word memoirs. Today’s task is to write a six…
Six-Word Memoirs of the Women in My Tree
Fearless Females #15…Six Word Memoirs About My Female Ancestors. Not to be confused with sex word memoirs :D. Those would be memoirs of a whole different sort. Six Word Memoirs sum up a person’s life in six words. I had one published in “Not Quite What I Was Planning” in 2008. I can’t find my…
Sophie (Pacheco) Figg’s Individual Summary
Sophie was my grandfather’s cousin. She has a special place in the family history. Sophie was the first of the family to leave Hawaii and not settle in California. Her husband was in the military and decided to go back to his hometown in Missouri. They were there when the 1930 census was taken, but…
Emma (Cabral) Pacheco’s Individual Summary
Emma was the first wife of John “Sailor” Pacheco, my grandfather’s cousin. She grew up in Oakland and came from a large family. Her parents were early immigrants to California having married there in 1893. I’m not sure when Emma and John married. John grew up in Kilauea, but shows up in California records around…