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…
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…
Remembering September 11th
Several times today I was going to write this post and then got distracted. I guess part of me still doesn’t want to revisit that day. I have always been intrigued by how we can remember certain days, even minutes, so succinctly, but we can’t remember what we had for lunch the day before. So…
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun
[I am working my way backward through Amy Coffin’s 52 weeks of Abundant Genealogy because I wasn’t paying attention at the beginning of the year. This is my entry for week #19…Blog Series] Without a doubt the blog series I enjoy the most is Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun at GeneaMusings.com. Without it, I…
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,…