This week’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is easy. The theme is Favorite Place to Research and I know exactly where that would be. This is a very specific location. It is where my Portuguese research began: E. 25th Street in Oakland, Alameda County, California. What makes this street so special? Why am I drawn…
Tag: Medeiros
Mystery Photo: Who is This Little Portuguese Girl?
This week’s mystery photo is actually two photos involving the same unknown little girl. These were in the collection of Marie Gloria (Bonita) Medeiros, my grandfather’s cousin. They were shown to me by her granddaughter, Barbara. The girl has Portuguese roots and was born in either Hawaii (most likely Kauai) or California. The first photo…
Mystery Photo Solved: Jose Medeiros and Bertha Pacheco
I’m excited in a way that only genealogists will understand. In Mystery Photo of the Week, I posted a photo of an unidentified bride and groom. I am happy to say that the photo has now been identified! It took a little detective work and a forgotten photo of two small children to sort it…
Mystery Photo: Who are the Bride and Groom from Oakland?
This wedding photograph came my way a few months ago. The photograph was taken around 1910-1915 in Oakland, California. We do not know who the bride and groom are but there are some clues. The Clues It’s pretty obvious that the groom and the best man are related, most likely brothers. They have…
This may be why I can’t find the marriage
This weekend I decided to redo the work another researcher did for me on Francisco de Medeiros and Josefa de Mello. The town of Maia isn’t on the Azores Archives website yet, so I thought Povoacao was as good as any place to research. I found their son, Joao de Mello’s, baptismal record first. Then,…