One of the Genea Blogger Games challenges is to create a timeline of events for an individual in my tree. I fooled around with Personal Historian, but wasn’t thrilled with the results. Since TimeToast was recommended I decided to give it a try. It took me some time to put my Great Grandmother, Maria (de…
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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: A Genealogy Gift
Randy’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun is to pick out a genealogy gift for someone and write about it. There are many things, existing and not, that I could chose. I think that instead of getting a gift for one person, it would be for the cousins who descend from my Great Great Uncle, Antonio Pacheco. …
Wedding Chapel Wednesday: Joe and Minnie
This wedding photo is of Minnie Frances Ventura (seated) and Jose “Joe P. Smith” Pacheco (standing on the right). The two others in this photo are Eva (Ventura) Nunes and Frank Ventura, Minnie’s sister and brother. Minnie was born in 1902 on Kauai, HI. She was the daughter of Francisco de Boa Ventura, of Sao…
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Your Most Unique Ancestral Name
This week Randy asks us to name our ancestor with the most unique name for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. I couldn’t come up with anything in my ancestry for a first and last name combination, so I’m going with the most unusual first name. I found my maternal Great Great grandfather in several records but…
I’m Related to a Nobel Laureate
I have a confession to make. For the longest time I have been jealous of Randy Seaver because he seems to always find connections to Presidents. He wrote about his connections to Barack Obama with this article “Yep, Barack Obama is My Cousin.” My immigrant ancestors didn’t seem to marry into any famous lines, certainly…