Azores Genealogy – 6 Easy Steps to Extend Your Family Tree Back to the 1600s
Maybe you’ve always known that your ancestors came from the Azores. Maybe you’ve just found out. Here are 6 Steps to Get Your Family Tree Back to the 1600s.
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Sometimes, Family Tree Breakthroughs Arrive in your Inbox
Imagine receiving a stack of photographs from a second cousin you’ve never met, who received them from a fourth cousin who lives on a Portuguese island off the coast of Africa. And that these photographs show never-before seen, everyday images from your great-grandparents’ life that they sent home to Portugal some fifty to sixty years […]
Read MoreLost Stories and Found Mysteries: Old Group Photographs
If you’ve spent any time researching ancestors, or the history of your town, or even history in general, you’ve likely come across old group photographs. A workplace outing from long ago, an annual gathering of some institution or society, or maybe a family gathering. If you’ve stared into the faces of those who gathered for […]
Read MoreBoston’s Immigrant Experience in 1900 – Anticipation & Hope Amidst Confusion & Exploitation
Imagine the anticipation of these folks aboard the SS Canopic as it docked in Boston over 90 years ago. Were your grandparents or great-grandparents among these immigrants, who had perhaps spent more than a week aboard ship traveling to a new life? How long had these families planned, sacrificed, and prepared for this moment as […]
Read MoreThe Challenge of Researching Portuguese Ancestors
If you were to visit Lowell, Massachusetts before . . . say, 1890, you would not have met many men walking about the city named João or Manuel. The Portuguese began arriving en masse in New England in the late 19th century and had established, by the first decades of the 20th century, sizable communities in […]
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Forgotten New England 