Category Archives: General Genealogy
SNGF: Lesson Learned
Randy over at GeneaMusings has a new Saturday Night Challenge for us. I’m supposed look back on when I began researching my family tree and the first problem I experienced. Then, report on the lesson learned. I started researching in 1990. My beginnings included my Grandmother writing four letters about her roots. She wrote me …
Thoughts and Prayers for Boston and Texas
This has been some week for America, hasn’t it? We’ve had a terrorist attack and an industrial accident. My thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Texas and the people of Boston. And, my thoughts go out to the people around the world who were in the marathon or who came to see …
Maria (Silva Baptista) Correia’s Individual Summary
Maria was the mother of my Great Uncle, Anthony Correia. I do not know much about her. She came from the island of Madeira and died in Kilauea, Kauai, HI at the age of 44. She had 12 children. The last was born a month before Maria died. She died from childbirth related problems. Name: …