Pedro de Melim and Escolástica Drumond Family

I felt impressed to search out this family. For some reason or another I thought I need to do more research on Escolástica, or that I know more about her than I realize I do. I began by searching for this family in the Arquivo Regional da Madeira’s baptism database. Using the advanced search function [...]

Anacleto António de Melim Found in Ancestry.com’s California Passenger and Crew Lists, 1893-1957 SS Wilhelmina

This discovery starts with a discovery back at the Madeiran Archives. I was searching the passport database for Lucrécia’s passport entry. I searched using her parent’s name (António Pedro de Melim & Margarida de Castro) as the search criteria. I was supprised to find out that one of her brothers applied for his passport at [...]

Old Research Log

I used to have an older version of my research log. It was a Google Document. I wanted to add it to my new blog so it can be found in one place. I have updated the links so they will give the same results that I found but with English headers (ie Parish instead [...]