Genealogy, History, Heritage, How To
A cousin shared some of her unknown photographs with me. One was taken around 1915-1920 and was labeled “My nephew Freddy with his first pair of short pants”. We almost missed identifying little Freddy because the real relationship with the person who owned the photograph was different than the note implied. In order to solve…
[Written for Fearless Females, 1oth of March, The Role of Religion] I don’t know much about the religious background of my ancestors. My parents were both raised Roman Catholic, but were not religious. We were baptized but we never went to church or participated in church activities. My parents were firm believers that religion was…
In my earlier post, I showed how I connected to Antonio Medeiros Cordeiro. Antonio is sort of anchor ancestor who connects me to several noble family trees in the Azores and throughout Europe. One of the well known noble characters in my tree is Goncalo Vaz Botelho, “O Grande”. He was one of the original…