[Fearless Females, Prompts for Women’s History Month, March 4th: Marriage Record of my Great Great Grandparents] In my previous entry, I showed you a copy of the Marriage record for my Great Grandparents, Theodoro Pacheco and Maria de Braga. The record was from a Catholic Church and was written in Latin. This next example is…
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Fearless Females: The Smile On Her Face
[This was written for Fearless Females, 2nd of March, Women’s History Month] This woman is not one of my ancestors, but she is a relative. She is my Great Great Aunt. And, she figures in family history. This is Maria de Jesus (Jacinto) de Braga, aka Mary DeBraga. I chose this photograph because it is…
The Most Grandchildren
The MyHeritage blog asked a question on its December 5th post. What is the largest number of grandchildren to a couple in your family tree? I took a gander at my tree to see what I could find. I decided not to go too far back. On many of my distant lines I’ve yet to…
SNGF: Ancestral Tombstones
Randy Seaver is at it again! He’s got his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge posted for this week. This week the challenge is to see how far back I can go with my ancestry with tombstones. This must be a continuous line. This may be a very short post. First, most of my ancestors were…
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…