I thought I knew pretty much everything that there was to know about Thomas Augustine Jones given the documents that are available. So, color me surprised when I was going through San Francisco voting registers the other night and I found Thomas where he shouldn’t have been. I knew that Thomas Jones lived with his…
Category: California Genealogy
More Property Research: The Same House on Guerrero but Different Addresses
One of the best finds so far with the San Francisco Property Information Maps website is finding the houses that Patrick Dolan, my 4th great uncle, owned and lived in. Or, maybe I should say house…more on that later. Patrick Dolan lived at 809 Guerrero from at least 1880 to 1900. When he died in…
Huge Find: San Francisco Property Information Map
Some of my best genealogy research adventures start with accidentally stumbling upon a website. It happened to me yesterday as I was doing research on a family business. I saw a link for San Francisco property records and decided to click on it. What I got was the “San Francisco Property Information Map” website. From…
The 1900 Census got the Menaud’s all wrong
I missed this entry in the 1900 Census for several years. I was looking for Romain and Madeleine Menaud, with daughter. Mary Lacazette (from Madeleine’s first marriage). But, they were nowhere to be found. It took learning more about the family to root them out. The Menaud surname is rare in California in 1900. Even…
Alexandrinha (Jose) Pacheco’s Individual Summary
Alexandrina is my Great Great Aunt. She married into my Pacheco family. She was born in Ginetes, Sao Miguel Island, Azores sometime around 1866. She migrated with her parents to Kauai, HI in 1882. She married Antonio Pacheco in 1889 in Kealia. They settled down in Kilauea, where Antonio worked on the sugar plantation. In…