Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there! My Dad passed away 4 May 2010. So, this is my second Fatherless Father’s Day. It is strange not having a Dad to celebrate today. No gift to purchase, no card to sign. The first Father’s Day without him was very hard. It was only a…
Surname Saturday: Furtado/Furtada of Achada
That was a crafty rhyme in my blog post title 😉 Last week, I followed Rosa Pimentel’s maternal line. This week I am going to follow her paternal line. The surname Furtado and the variant Furtada figures in this line. Once again, because of the era, the surname follows the matrilineal format. Starting with Rosa…
Seeing My Dad’s Obituary
Elyse over at Elyse’s Genealogy Blog wrote about seeing her Mother’s Social Security Index entry yesterday on her blog. She wrote about the emotions this brought forth and asked if others have experience mixed feelings when viewing a document. I was thinking back on some documents that have given me mixed feelings such as when…
Computer File Organizing Project Update
A few months back, I blogged about the mess that I had made of my digitized documents on my computer. I have hundreds if not thousands of records in file folders. But, I’m not sure what’s been input, what’s been source, or if they are even in the right folder. I decided it was time…
I Had The Information All Along
Please tell me this has happened to you! I was working on my Jones/Bourne computer file folder last night. I was going over city directory pages from the 1890s. There were about 10-12 Bourne’s living in San Francisco total. Yet, I couldn’t link any of them to my tree. Something kept tickling the back of…