You never know what you will find when you research newspapers. My Grandfather had many, many, many cousins of different ethnic backgrounds. One side from Kauai married Filipino men and thus, the Portuguese and Filipino traditions blended. I found this article about his cousin, Marian. It was in the Oakland Tribune newspaper [Oakland, CA], 12…
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That’s Old News: The Portuguese Praised in Hawaii
In searching the Hawaiian Gazette newspaper, I found several references to the Portuguese immigrants in it’s pages. This is an article from 7 Sep 1881. The author praises the Portuguese who have recently come to Hawaii to work the sugar plantations. I found this article interesting because it gives a glimpse of the views held…
That’s Old News: One Day of Local News
I often hear people lament that things were better in the olden days. Or, that somehow people have changed. We’re meaner and less civil, right? We commit way more crimes and we’ll pull out a gun over anything. Right? As I’ve been doing alot of newspaper research over the last year or two, I’ve learned…
That’s Old News: Who Names Their Son Benjamin Franklin?
That’s the question I had to answer. One of my distant cousins, Catherine McSweegan, daughter of Thomas McSweegan and Catherine Kelly, married a man named B.F. Baddeley. That “B.F.” drove me crazy. What did it stand for? I researched different records to see if I could uproot his first and middle name. I eventually found…
That’s Old News: Can National Events Affect A Marriage?
I’ve been doing alot of newspaper research later…I mean ALOT! I don’t think any type of research I’ve done in the last year or so has been as rewarding as searching newspapers online. The ability to find relatives through keyword searches opens up a whole world of stories beyond birth, death, and marriage records. I…