I came across this article in the Daily Alta Newspaper [San Francisco, CA], 22 August 1866, while searching for the McSwegan family (aka McSweegan). This was under the Fourth District Court, “Discharged”: Mary (Gallagher) McSwegan, a widow, was only in the U.S. about three years when this happened. From the information given, her oldest son,…
Category: About My Ancestors
SNGF: Filling Downtime
Randy has his weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge posted at Genea-Musings. I don’t have my blog on Blogger so I wasn’t affected by the downtime. My blogs are hosted on my own web space at 1and1.com. That doesn’t mean I’ll never experience down time. Anything can happen out on the web. I’m not that…
Surname Saturday: de Melo’s of Achada
I have several different de Melo lines. This post will concentrate on the de Melo’s of Achada, Nordeste, Sao Miguel Island, Azores. This has been a tricky line for me. While I had my Great Great Grandmother’s name very early in my research, I was able to find very few documents to help fill in…
Happy Mother’s Day!
This photograph was taken in 1964 a few months after I was born. My oldest sister is 7 at the time. My Mom is 27 years old in this photo. She 5 kids in 7 years. It’s one of my favorites. We were visiting one of my parent’s friends. We were like a small army…
Noble Roots: Getting from Antonio to Goncalo
In my earlier post, I showed how I connected to Antonio Medeiros Cordeiro. Antonio is sort of anchor ancestor who connects me to several noble family trees in the Azores and throughout Europe. One of the well known noble characters in my tree is Goncalo Vaz Botelho, “O Grande”. He was one of the original…