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52 Ancestors: Women Worked on Hawaii’s Sugar Plantations, Too
This is the fifth entry in the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge. The theme is Ploughing Through. I wonder how many researchers with Portuguese Hawaiian ancestry realize that their female ancestors...
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52 Ancestors Week 12: My Favorite Photograph
This week in the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge I’m suppose to write about my favorite photograph. How does one pick one favorite??? It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that at the top of my...
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SNGF: One of My Favorite Family Photos
This week Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge is tell everyone about a favorite family photo. I have so many, I don’t know where to start! I’ve decided to post this one. Well, it’s a...
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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...
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52 Ancestors Week 38: One Large Azorean Family
These Azorean men produced a heck of a lot of offspring! Large families…the definition has changed over time. When I was growing up, my family was considered large. There were 7 of us…5 kids born in 7...
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Mystery Photo of the Week: Are These Three People Portuguese Hawaiians?
This week’s mystery photo comes from the collection of Marie Gloria (Bonita) Medeiros thanks to her granddaughter. The Bonita’s were from Kauai, Hawaii, Monterey County, CA, and Oakland, CA. They had...
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1900 US Census: Portuguese Names in Hanalei District, Kauai, Territory of Hawaii
This genealogy index was created from the 1900 U.S. Federal Census covering Hanalei District, Kauai, Territory of Hawaii. Portuguese names of the heads of families and their spouses have been...
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Ellen Figg, Navy WAVES: Recovering One Woman’s History
It pays to randomly search the internet for your relatives. No, not to spy on them. For genealogical purposes, of course! I do this periodically and sometimes come up with a gem. I uncovered a lost...
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Relationship between the Cosma and the Camara Families
This is Genealogy Research Journal #2. In this series, I’ll show how the Camara and Cosma families who spent so much time together turned out to be related. This turned into a tricky research problem....
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Helen’s Adoptive Mother Had No Last Name
How do you learn the name of a person when all you have to go on is their daughter’s name and what sounds like a nickname for their first name? This genealogy research journal will explore the mystery...
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