When I first started my family tree, I didn’t worry about my French lines because my Aunt had been working on those for years. I thought the Irish and British would be a piece of cake. I feared the Portuguese because I didn’t know the language. My perceptions turned out to be all wrong (except…
Category: About My Ancestors
Figuring out when John Dolan Died
In my last post about my Dolan research I wrote about how my Dolan’s were getting all tangled up with the Kelly surname. I’ve been following the family of John Dolan and Bridget Kelly who lived in San Mateo, California according to the 1880 census. Bridget (Kelly) Dolan’s obituary told me that she was a…
Newspapers Tell Me A Little Bit about the Five Mile House
If you have ancestors who lived where a major calamity struck, you know that the amount of resources available to you are limited. Such is the case of my San Francisco relatives who had the audacity to show up San Franciscan shores in the 1850s. Those that didn’t survive beyond the 1906 earthquake and fire…
I Cherish My Ancestors’ Sugar Plantation Contracts
One of my most treasured items is something I never thought to ever see.I met Susan Nunes online years ago. We learned that we shared the same de Braga ancestry and began comparing notes, photographs, and documents. Susan had something in her possession that I thought was long ago lost. It was a copy of…
Life of Theodoro & Maria (de Braga) Pacheco
Another example of a timeline. This one is for my great grandparents, Theodoro Pacheco and Maria de Braga. In this example, I’ve incorporated historical events. It places my great grandparents within the events happening around them. ca500………Polynesians begin migrating to the Hawaiian islands 1178……….Capt. James Cook becomes the first European to arrive in the Hawaii…