Randy Seaver is at it again! He’s got his Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge posted for this week. This week the challenge is to see how far back I can go with my ancestry with tombstones. This must be a continuous line. This may be a very short post. First, most of my ancestors were…
Tag: St. Mary’s Cemetery
Added a Cemetery to FindaGrave.com
Today I worked on Challenge 6 of the Winter Genea Blogger games: Reach Out and Perform Genealogical Acts of Kindness. I worked on Task B–Post one or more gravestone photos at Find A Grave. I have been meaning to work on Find A Grave since the beginning of the year as a Pay it Forward….
Tombstone Tuesday: Dean
As far as it goes, this tombstone at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Oakland, CA, is pretty simple. Only one person is buried here, my Great Uncle, Antao A. Souza. Antao was born 12 Feb 1890 in Kilauea, Kauai Co., HI. He was the sixth child out of thirteen born to Francesca de Mendonca and Augusto…
Tombstone Tuesday: Buried under the Name Cosma
Do you believe everything you read on a tombstone? This one from St. Mary’s Cemetery in Oakland, Alameda County, California reads: COSMA 1875 John 1941 1876 Marie 1951 When I first started researching my Great Great Aunt and Great Great Uncle I thought this information was gospel. It took several years of research before I…
Tombstone Tuesday: What’s in a Name?
This is the tombstone of my Azorean Great Great Uncle and Great Great Aunt, Manoel Pacheco and Jacintha Rosa (Moniz) Pacheco at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Oakland, Alameda County, California: Did you notice that neither of those names are on this stone? The surname Algravia was adopted by this family somewhere around 1910. It’s been…