Last week I finished the ancestry of Jacintho Pacheco. Today, I’m starting on his wife, Ana Jacinta de Melo. I did the de Melo’s previously. So, this week it’s “Silva Tavares”. The Silva Tavares line is from Achadinha, Nordeste, Sao Miguel Island, Azores. The line starts as two separate surnames, Silva and Tavares, and switches…
Friday Free Ebook: The Molokai Settlement
Today’s freebie comes from archive.org. The book is called The Molokai Settlement, Territory of Hawaii: Villages of Kalaupapa and Kalawao. Issued by the Board of Health of the Territory of Hawaii : 1907. The book has information of the leper colony on Molokai. It includes many photographs of the two settlements, the facilities used, the…
Wedding Chapel Wednesday: Proof That They Married
If you’ve done research in a place where a disaster has struck, then you know the difficulty I experienced trying to find my Great Great Grandparent’s marriage record. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire not only wiped out many government records, but church records as well. The ability to use one or the other…
Tuesday’s Tip: Be Prepared to Disprove Family Stories
Everyone has family stories. These stories are the basis of our narrative. They are usually the starting point of our research and guide us as we work from person to person. There’s one thing I have learned from family stories. While they can add background to the documentation, they can also be roadblocks. They can…
That’s Old News: Youth Clubs
While going through the Oakland Tribune Newspaper [Oakland, CA] dated 17 Sep 1933, I found this little article about the John Swett Leader’s Club. John Swett was born in 1830 and died in 1913. He was the California State Superintendent of Schools from 1863 to 1867. He is considered to be the founder of California…