How do you learn the name of a person when all you have to go on is their daughter’s name and what sounds like a nickname for their first name? This genealogy research journal will explore the mystery of Helen (Pacheco) Correia and her adoptive mother whose name was lost over time. Helen was part…
Tag: Genealogy Mysteries
Relationship between the Cosma and the Camara Families
This is Genealogy Research Journal #2. In this series, I’ll show how the Camara and Cosma families who spent so much time together turned out to be related. This turned into a tricky research problem. It involves multiple name changes. Also, at the time I took up this problem those living had forgotten their connections….
Mary (Riley) Jackson’s Genealogy Journey is Complete: The End of the Jackson Line
Mary L. (Riley) Jackson means very little to my family tree. She isn’t one of my ancestors. She is my great aunt. She married my great uncle, John Jackson, ca 1925. They divorced about 10 years later. I can go beyond her to the next generation easily. Yet, I feel compelled to research her. John’s…
Mary Collis, Take Three
There are times when I am more efficient than I thought I was. I was beating myself up for misplacing Patrick Dolan’s probate file when it hit me. I took copious notes from the massive file! I pulled down the Kelly/Dolan binder, flipped to Patrick Dolan’s section, and began reading. After going through the notes,…
One more question about Mary Collis
After I wrote my blog post last night about Mary Collis, daughter of Bridget Dolan, something occurred to me. How do I know that Mary Collis ever came to America? Every thing I know about Mary Collis came from the refiled probate records for her Uncle, Patrick Dolan. I have part of that file in…