Randy’s newest challenge for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun involves the three degrees of separation concept. I’m supposed to take myself back to the last ancestor who I knew, then take that person back to the last ancestor they knew, and finally one more time. This proved to be a tricky assignment for me. I knew…
Category: General Genealogy
The Mystery of Jerome Cady–Can you help?
I’m helping a friend work on her family tree. She has had an accident recently and is going through a long rehabilitation. I would love to be able to present her information on her line to help cheer her up. She is a descendant of the screenwriter, Jerome “Jerry” Cady (pronounced Kay-Tee). While her mother’s…
Were my relatives deported?
I’ve looked up many cousins in the Ellis Island immigrant database. I’ve viewed many ship manifests. Every now and then I see something I’ve never seen before. Such was the case with the ship manifest for the Carreiro family. Luiz Carreiro, his wife Francisca Julia da Conceicao Pacheco (aka Remigio Pacheco), their five children Maria,…
That’s Old News: The Akana Wedding
This entry comes from the Garden Island Newspaper, 23 May 1912. I’ve often wondered how weddings might have been celebrated in the early 1900s in Hawaii. I found this article in the newspaper that describes the wedding of Mr. I. Akana to Miss Rose Aea. The couple was married in the Catholic Church in Eleele,…
I’ve Slayed My Source Dragon
I’m sure many of you have heard me lament about my problems with entering sources into genealogy software. It is something that has literally driven me nuts over the last couple of years. Here’s some background. It might be something that many of you can relate to. When I first started working on my family…