Researchers usually don’t get very far before they find an ancestor who seems impossible to find. Many times this is because they are used to calling their ancestor by a certain name when, in fact, they were named something else. Names evolve, shorten, and modernize over time. Taking an ancestor from what everyone called them…
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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…