This week’s theme for 52 Ancestors is heirloom. One item I would really like to have is the bango tags of my great great grandparents is their bango. Do you know what a bango is? No, it is not a drug reference and I didn’t misspell a musical instrument. The word comes from the Japanese…
Tag: Braga
Resolving Lost Children in My de Braga Line
Boy, my blogging has been slim to nothing lately. I apologize but a huge project with a deadline was dumped on me at the end of August and I couldn’t do anything else. I’m still in the midst of it. Of course, right in the middle of this project, the records I’ve been waiting on…
Praise for FindaGrave Volunteers for de Braga family tombstone photos
Recently, I searched FindaGrave for Seraphim and Olympia (Medeiros) de Braga. I found both listed but without photographs. I put in a request and got a response the next day! After I had that information, I decided to search for more relatives. I found several more listed without photographs, so I put in more requests. …
Surname Saturday: Paiva of Maia and Achada
This week I’m carrying forward the paternal line of Manoel Paiva Braga–and it’s not Braga 😉 This continues the de Braga line that I posted about a few weeks ago. The Paiva’s line originates in Achada Grande, Nordeste, Sao Miguel Island, Azores. It then moves to Maia, Ribeira Grande, same island around 1700. Joao de…
Tombstone Tuesday: Who Left These Flowers?
While walking through Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Hayward, California, about ten years ago, I came across the grave site for my Great Great Aunt and Uncle, Jose de Braga and Maria Jacinto (aka Joseph DeBraga and Mary Camara). Jose was the son of Jozimas de Braga and Maria da Conceicao de Mello, of Maia, Ribeira…