I’ve been trying to find photographs of my relatives so that I can make photo charts. RootsMagic has the capability to make photo descendant charts and I want to fill in as many faces as I can. I think it’s easier to grasp the family tree when you can associate a face with the name….
Category: Education Systems
52 Ancestors Week 35: Were Theodoro and Maria Educated?
This week’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks theme is schooling. I’ve written quite a bit about this topic this year. This time I would like to answer the question as to whether my Azorean great grandparents, Theodoro and Maria (de Braga) Pacheco Smith, had any schooling in Hawaii? Schooling For Children was Part of the…
Recovering Family Photographs through School Yearbooks
I have very few photographs from my maternal grandmother’s side of the tree. While there are plenty of photographs of my grandmother, Anna (Jackson) Shellabarger, there are only a handful of her siblings. I have four of her mother and none of her father. There are no photographs of her many relatives from San Francisco….
52 Ancestors Week 22: My Mom was the First Graduate in My Tree
I had to put on my thinking cap (or was it my mortar board?) for this week’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge. I wanted to write about the first graduate in my tree, but I wasn’t sure who that was. I was aware that the majority of my immigrant ancestors were illiterate. Only the…
Education in the Islands circa 1911
I came across a really interesting article in the newspaper a few days ago. This article comes from the Garden Island newspaper of Kauai, 23 May 1911. The article is titled “Our Schools Are Criticized”. The article can be found at the Chronicling America website. The article hopes to defend Hawaii’s education system against critics…