The proper way to research a family tree is to go from the known to the unknown, from present to past. What do you do when you can’t find the known person in the records where they are supposed to be? You get creative. I am on a quest to find the baptismal record for…
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What’s wrong with these ages?
I thought I would do something nice for some cousins this weekend. As some of the Azorean church records are online, I thought I would look through them and find some of my great and great great aunts and uncles. I was able to locate Francisco de Boa Ventura in Sao Jose, Ponta Delgada fairly…
Alexandrinha (Jose) Pacheco’s Individual Summary
Alexandrina is my Great Great Aunt. She married into my Pacheco family. She was born in Ginetes, Sao Miguel Island, Azores sometime around 1866. She migrated with her parents to Kauai, HI in 1882. She married Antonio Pacheco in 1889 in Kealia. They settled down in Kilauea, where Antonio worked on the sugar plantation. In…
Tombstone Tuesday: Antonio, the Mystery Man
When I first visited St. Mary’s Cemetery in Oakland, California, I walked in two sections. It wasn’t until the second trip that I explored an older section of the cemetery and came across this tombstone: This is the grave site for my Great Great Uncle, Antonio Pacheco, and my Great Great Aunt, Alexandrinha (Jose) Pacheco….