Do you believe everything you read on a tombstone? This one from St. Mary’s Cemetery in Oakland, Alameda County, California reads: COSMA 1875 John 1941 1876 Marie 1951 When I first started researching my Great Great Aunt and Great Great Uncle I thought this information was gospel. It took several years of research before I…
Category: About My Ancestors
I’m Related to a Nobel Laureate
I have a confession to make. For the longest time I have been jealous of Randy Seaver because he seems to always find connections to Presidents. He wrote about his connections to Barack Obama with this article “Yep, Barack Obama is My Cousin.” My immigrant ancestors didn’t seem to marry into any famous lines, certainly…
Tracking a Lost Cousin
After doing Randy’s Genealogy challenge last night, I realized that I knew almost nothing about my Mom’s cousin, Rees Embry Winter. While I’ve been able to track the descendants of all my Great Aunts and Great Uncles, Rees’ family was a big question mark. Naturally, once I realized this I could not leave it alone….
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: How Many Descendants?
Randyof Genea-Musings set out a mission for this Saturday. Count up generations in your descendants list, then calculate the living and dead. Of those, note how many you have met. After much consternation, I decided to use Margaret (Jones) and Harry Jackson. 1. Children = 6 (all deceased) 2. Grandchildren = 12 (5 living, 8…
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: My Satisfying Genealogy Moment
This weeks challenge from Randy at Genea-Musings is to blog about one of my most satifying genealogy moments. Without a doubt, it has to be finding out that my Great Grandfather, Theodoro Pacheco (aka Theodore P. Smith) died of leprosy. As a child I was told that Theodoro brought his family to California from Hawaii. …