Alfred Soares SS-5

I received a letter in the mail from the Social Security administration.  At first I thought it was another one of those phony Statement of Benefits for Social Security.  You know the forms that make it look like I am paying into a system and accruing benefits.  They are very misleading but that is beside [...]

Been too busy

I haven’t posted in a while because I have been too busy  with work and other responsibilities to find time to do my family history research.  I am still waiting on the FOIA request with the Social Security Administration.  Nothing has come yet although I have not been expecting the request to be fulfilled yet.

FOIA Request – Alfred Soares

I haven’t posted anything the last few days because I have been busy at work and home, and have not had a chance to do any family history research.  I took a few minutes during my lunch break to make a Freedom of Information Act request.  Since I have reason to beleive that the Alfred [...]

A response from Cochran Mortuary about Alfred Soares

So I received an email today from the Cochran Mortuary. Here is the email: Mr. Silva: I have found an Alfred Soares. My records don’t show any family surviving. Only a conservator and a friend that stepped forward to take care of him in death. Based on some of the information you have supplied me, [...]

Emailed Cochran Mortuary About Alfred Soares

I sent a second email to the Cochran Mortuary for more information on Alfred Soares.  I hope that they respond.  The mortuary need to know my relation to the deceased before releasing any information.  Alfred Soares is my great granduncle.  I hope that although I am not a direct descendant, the mortuary will provide me [...]

Searched for Guilherme da Silva’s Death Date

I spent a little time searching for Guilherme da Silva’s death date.  I know that he arrived in San Francisco, California in 1918 with his wife and children.  One of his sons was living in Oakland in 1930, but wasn’t living with his parents.  I searched Ancestry.com’s California Death Index, 1940-1997 using his immigrant name [...]

Updated: General Information on Sephardic Jews

Earlier last week I made a post about Sephardic Jews. Sue Lick, the author of Stories Grandmother Never Told, posted a comment to that post giving me permission to quote that section. Therefore quoting from Stories Grandmother Never Told: Louise married a Jewish man and became fascinated by the Jewish culture and especially by the [...]

Portuguese Immigrants and the World War I Draft

I have previously posted here an examples of Portuguese immigrant who had to register for the draft in World War I.  Now as I previously explained it was a shock to find this draft card because he was not an American citizen.  Ancestry.com explains in their “interesting facts” section under the source for their World War [...]

Grave Location of Alfred Soares

I received a reply from the Lakeview Funeral Home Assistant Manager/Funeral Director. See Update: The Continuing Saga of Alfred Soares for more history on this request. She gave me the location of Alfred Soares’ grave in the Lakeview Cemetery in Wichita Kansas. Here’s what he wrote: Alfred Soares grave location is: Garden: Gethsemane II Lot: [...]

Using WeRelate

I have started to tinker with the genealogy wiki found at http://www.werelate.org/. I hope to use it as a point of collaboration which works in harmony with this research log. Facts that are known about an individual will be placed there. To see my tree please visit this link.