Working through my Portuguese family tree, today I’ve decided to post on the Ferreira/Ferreira Grota line. This line hails from the Ribeira Grande district of Sao Miguel Island. As with most Porttuguese lines in the 1700s, the surname descends from the maternal line rather than the paternal line. My oldest ancestor is Jacintha Ferreira, a…
That’s Old News: One Day of Local News
I often hear people lament that things were better in the olden days. Or, that somehow people have changed. We’re meaner and less civil, right? We commit way more crimes and we’ll pull out a gun over anything. Right? As I’ve been doing alot of newspaper research over the last year or two, I’ve learned…
Do You Dream of Visiting Your Ancestral Homeland?
My latest genealogy page on Squidoo is called “Dreaming of Kilauea”. It’s meant to be a travel page, but it’s really about my dream vacation. Kilauea, Kauai, Hawaii is where my Portuguese ancestors settled when they migrated from the Azores to work on the sugar plantations. That was 1882. I still have relatives in the…
Reading RSS Feeds on Your Nook
I got my Nook last January and have been in love with it ever since. It’s a B&W Nook with web access (not like the new B&W reader). One of the reasons I wanted an ereader besides reading books was to access blogs. I have several that I read on a daily basis through my…
Wedding Chapel Wednesday: Burke Caughell Wedding Announcement
I found this bit of news in the 26 Jan 1930 Oakland Tribune: It describes the wedding of my Grandmother’s cousin, Genevieve Burke, to Hugh Caughell. Genevieve was the daughter of John “Jack” Burke and Gertrude Jones (Gertrude was my Great Grandmother’s Sister). The wedding took place in the home of Hugh Caughell’s parents on…