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Tombstone Tuesday: Learning Melvin Medeiros’ Story

My Pacheco and de Braga lines intersect with a family from Kilauea, Kauai, Hawaii, who went by de la Cross (or de la Cruz), Medeiros, and Andrew or Andrew Medeiros–take your pick.  As our lines crossed a few times, I ended up documenting their descendants as well as mine. One of the descendants, Melvin Medeiros, …

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Tombstone Tuesday: Maria Pacheco Iida, another Fearless Female

Although Tombstone Tuesday is not on the Fearless Female calendar this week, I thought I’d take the opportunity to introduce you to another fearless female in my tree. This is the tombstone of Maria (Pacheco) Iida, daughter of Antonio Pacheco and Alexandrina Jose. It reads: Maria P. Iida July 13, 1891 Dec 27 1961 According …

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Tombstone Tuesday: Catharine Kelly’s Tombstone Found

A month or so ago, I added some graves to findagrave.com.  I only got through a few, added a couple of photos, then requested 3 photos. Last week, I was contacted by a volunteer.  He went to Holy Cross Cemetery but couldn’t find my graves.  I sent him what little information I had for his …

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