Today is the day we all give thanks for what we have. I’m thankful for getting through the difficult year after my Dad’s death. This will be our second Thanksgiving since he died and it is definitely a lot easier this time around. I would like to give thanks for the online genealogy community who…
Anti-Annexation Petitions are being transcribed
The Native Hawaiian Genealogy Society is embarking on a project that should prove beneficial to many Hawaii researchers. They are going to be transcribing the anti-annexation petitions of 1897-1898. The petitions include over 21,000 names. I think it’s an important part of history to capture as their were people who were against annexation and resisted…
Oakland Bay Bridge Anniversary
If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you have probably passed over the Oakland Bay Bridge many times in your life. The bridge is celebrating it’s 75th anniversary. Huffingon Post has some amazing photographs from the construction of the bridge: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/11/bay-bridge-anniversary_n_1087376.html Construction of the bridge was started in 1933, at the height of…
I Wish I Had Known My Great Uncle Joe
I never met my Great Uncle Jose Pacheco (aka Joe P. Smith) He died 10 years before I was born. From what I’ve been told, he must have been a remarkable person. Jose was the oldest child of Theodoro Pacheco and Maria de Braga. He was born 1 Oct 1896 in Kilauea, Kauai, Hawaii. His…
What did that V stand for?
When searching through social security death records I noticed something peculiar. Many of my Portuguese Hawaiian male relatives born between 1880 and 1910 had middle initials. I found this peculiar because the Portuguese didn’t use middle names. What was even stranger was when I asked their close relatives about the middle initial. It seemed they…