In the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Series, Week 40’s theme is birthdays and anniversaries in October. I’ve already written about my Grandma Lassalle and about my maternal grandparent’s marriage. Who else could I write about? In going through my database, I found something of interest. My maternal grandfather and my maternal great grandfather chose…
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52 Ancestors, Week 21: My Azorean Ancestor was a Soldier
Being a regular blogger makes it difficult to find topics that I haven’t already touched for weekly challenges. This week’s theme for the 52 Ancestors challenge is Military. So far, I haven’t found many ancestors who were in the military who I haven’t already expounded upon already. As I’ve recently found new information on Felicianno…
52 Ancestors: Rosa Boteilho was a Tough Woman
This is my entry for the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge, week 3: Tough Woman. It’s not easy to flesh out the stories of Azorean women. You are dealing with baptismal, marriage, and death records. That’s it. Often, women are elusive because of naming practices which involved taking a religious name rather than a…
No More Descendants to Follow in my Mello Tree
When the records for Maia, Ribeira Grande, Sao Miguel Island came online, I was so excited. Finally, I would be able to fill in some gaps in my tree. One of my hopes was to find out if my ancestors, Felicianno de Mello and Rosa Boteilho, had anymore children that I might be able to…
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…