The first cemetery reburial card that caused me problems was that of Catherine Kelly. The card states that Catherine died 1 July 1872 in San Francisco at the age of 44. She was buried at Calvary and reburied 21 Oct 1890 at Holy Cross Cemetery. I didn’t really question this until I came across the…
Category: Cemetery and Mortuary Research
Added a Cemetery to FindaGrave.com
Today I worked on Challenge 6 of the Winter Genea Blogger games: Reach Out and Perform Genealogical Acts of Kindness. I worked on Task B–Post one or more gravestone photos at Find A Grave. I have been meaning to work on Find A Grave since the beginning of the year as a Pay it Forward….
Revisiting the Smith Lagrange Conundrum
I’ve posted a couple of times about a research problem involving John Lagrange who died before 1840. He was the son of Elias “Jellis” Lagrange and Annatie Van Patten, of Albany Co., NY. In the 1840 Census, John Lagrange is listed next to Henry Smith in Duanesburgh, Schenectady Co., NY. John’s son, John S. Lagrange…
Tombstone Tuesday: Ana Jacinta’s Crumbled Stone
My Great Great Grandmother, Ana Jacinto de Melo Pacheco, came to Hawaii in 1882. She was widowed bringing her children with her. If I hadn’t seen her immigration records, I would have no evidence that Ana stepped on Hawaiian soil. She isn’t listed in any census, vital records, or church records that I have come…
Introducing Nellie, I mean Helen, no wait…Lottie!
It really bothered me yesterday that I couldn’t find anything on John C. Jones’ daughter, Nellie. Where could she have gone to? Was she another relative who fell off the face of the Earth? I wasn’t about to give up so easily. Thursday morning I went back to the San Francisco Call Newspaper Index. In…