My latest genealogy page on Squidoo is called “Dreaming of Kilauea”. It’s meant to be a travel page, but it’s really about my dream vacation. Kilauea, Kauai, Hawaii is where my Portuguese ancestors settled when they migrated from the Azores to work on the sugar plantations. That was 1882. I still have relatives in the…
Category: General Genealogy
Google Books Find: Men of Hawaii
I like to search the Google Books collection to see if anything of interest has been added. Today I found this gem: Men of Hawaii: being a biographical reference library, complete and authentic, of the men of note, and substantial achievements in the Hawaiian Islands, volume I. Edited by John William Siddall. Honolulu Star Bulletin…
Testing Out Geni.com
Randy Seaver has mentioned Genea.com in his posts over at Genea-Musings for quite some time. He had a post today about William and Kate’s ancestry. As I have royalty in my tree two (I did not get invited to the wedding though!), I decided to check out what Geni.com was all about. The tree that…
Fearless Females: First Name Still Unknown
[Fearless Females, 21st of May, Brick Walls] It’s not enough that I have my own family tree to work on. I also do my brother-in-law’s La Grange-Boisvert tree. The line goes back to the 1600s with the original ancestor, Omie de la Grange. Omie settled in the Albany, New York area and spread his tree…
Dealing with Criminals in the Family Tree
Since I’ve been working with newspapers over the last two years, I’ve been noticing something. More relatives than I ever dreamed of have been involved in crime. It creates a dilemma for the genealogist. How much should you record about a relatives criminal past? How much should be shared? What would be better left unsaid?…