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…
Tag: Marriage Records
Eureka! I Have Found It!
Feast your eyes upon a beautiful sight… This is my great great grandparents, Jacinto Pacheco and Anna Jacinta de Mello’s marriage record. It is the culmination of 3-5 years of searching, a good 10 or more years of not being able to search because of my arthritis, and the end of a whole lot of…
The Satisfaction of Finding the Right Record
[This is an entry in my series Wedding Chapel Wednesday. This is the search for my grandmother’s cousin’s marriage records.] I’ve taken a detour from San Francisco deeds, which was my detour from Azorean church records. I became possessed with the desire to find San Francisco marriage records. So, I decided to work on those…
Marriage Entry Throws Me a Curve
The Olympics ended abruptly tonight, so I had some time to play around. I decided to make another stab at finding the marriage record for my Great Aunt Margaret Mary Jackson and her last husband, Alfred V. “Buster” Fafri. I have had a heck of a time finding any information of Margaret after 1920. By…
Religious Newspaper Comes to the Rescue
I knew that the city of San Francisco did not have a copy of the marriage record for my Great Great Grandparents, Thomas A. Jones and Margaret Kelly because the records were destroyed in 1906. I also knew that the state of California did not begin recording vital records until after 1905. I didn’t know…