A few years ago, I found a Casaux/Lacrouts family tree on MyHeritage which I believed was related to me. Unfortunately, the tree was private and I got no response to my PM. I found a snippet of this tree and it intrigued me because it lead from France to Spain. My French ancestors all lived…
Category: Immigration Research
That’s Old News: Portuguese Immigrants Charged A Fee In Hawaii
I thought I had a pretty darn good idea of the process Portuguese immigrants went through during the sugar plantation era. They signed a contact to work on a plantation while still at home. The applied for a passport. They got on the ship and were listed on the ship manifest. They arrived in Honolulu…
Why Did The S.S. Hansa Carrying Azorean Sugar Contract Laborers Heading for Hawaii Run into Problems in Portugal?
I thought I understood the migration trail the Azorean sugar plantation contract workers took to Hawaii: Azores to South America to San Francisco to Hawaii. After reading an old newspaper article about the voyage of the S.S. Hansa in 1882, the ship my Pacheco ancestors were on, I found that I was wrong. I expected…
The Case for Sharing Your Genealogy Work: Proving Manuel Melo Castanho is Related
My mom used to tell me that sharing was good especially when my siblings and I were fighting over over a toy. Not only is sharing good for siblings, it’s good for genealogists. Case in point, I’ve confirmed the relationship of a man on a “Fiche de Emigrante” card all because I posted a link…
How Many Immigrant Ancestors Are In Your Family Tree?
I sometimes wonder if my ancestor’s experience was the same as other people’s. I’ve written before about how my family tree is made up of new immigrants. There are no pilgrims, Puritans, or Revolutionary War heroes in my tree–so far. My first immigrant ancestor didn’t arrive on the scene until the 1840s. Who Fills Your…