Genealogy, History, Heritage, How To
My mom always said that she hated school. She was sent to Catholic School and didn’t care for the strictness of the nuns. Yet, my mom was the first one in her family to graduate and she went on to be a successful secretary, bookkeeper, and office manager. So, she must have have learned something…
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….
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…
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….
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…