Getting back to Wedding Chapel Wednesday… This wedding photo is of Benedict “Ben” Iida and Rosa Medeiros. Benedict was born 2 Jan 1908 in Kilauea, Kauai, HI. His parents were Joseph Shintaro Iida and Louisa Pacheco. His Father was Japanese and his Mother was the daughter of Azorean immigrants. Rosa’s parents were Joao Medeiros Toucado…
Tombstone Tuesday: Maria Pacheco Iida, another Fearless Female
Although Tombstone Tuesday is not on the Fearless Female calendar this week, I thought I’d take the opportunity to introduce you to another fearless female in my tree. This is the tombstone of Maria (Pacheco) Iida, daughter of Antonio Pacheco and Alexandrina Jose. It reads: Maria P. Iida July 13, 1891 Dec 27 1961 According…
New Ship Indexes Added to YourIslandRoutes.com
Tonight I worked on another Winter Games Challenge: Participate in an indexing project. I’ve been working on my own indexing project for the last 2-3 years. I’ve been extracting Portuguese names from ship lists for ships from Hawaii to California. This involved extracting the name and putting them into spreadsheets for each ship. This took…
A Brief Sketch of Jacintho Pacheco
Jacintho Pacheco was my Great Great Grandfather. He was born ca. 1820 in the village of Fenais da Vera Cruz, Ribeira Grande on the island of Sao Miguel in the Azores. He was the son of Joao Pacheco and Jacintha Rosa Ferreira, both also from Fenais da Vera Cruz. He met my Great Great Grandmother,…
My Shelf is Attacking Me
One of the Winter Games challenges is to organize and file at least 20 hard files in their binders. After my experience tonight, I am fairly sure why I’m so far behind on filing. It’s too dang dangerous! I pulled out the first stack of papers and proceeded to knock my glidepoint, the wrist guard,…