Second Objective: Second Attempt - FAILED
A friend lawyer of mine told me that although you could fail online, one might go to the Public Records and get friendlier service as they can search for you. NOOOOOT!I went this morning, with my...
View ArticleHello,Cousin!
This blog gets revived thanks to a surprise email I received from a certain Jane in Australia claiming to be a cousin through a common ancestor, Eva Del Bosco.Once confirmed, this led to a flurry of...
View ArticleGeneanum
Spurred by the new contact below, I went to check the Malta Genealogy Forum for any updates, as I had not looked here for ages.A post by Josyanne Massa, an on-line acquaintance of mineon the subject...
View ArticleBefore Bone, Algeria: Casal Bisbuti!
Let me recapitulate what this story has been so far...In "From Bona" I explained how my search for the paternal line took me across the Mediterranean Sea to Algeria looking for my GGGGrandpa...In Bona,...
View ArticleQuandary solved(?)
In Mystery Solved - Another Emerges I had come to the conclusion that there were two couples giving birth to children in Attard sharing the same father's name, surname and the mother: Lorenzo Fenech...
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Farewell Dad
A few minutes past midnight of Monday 18th April 2011, my father's respiratory system broke down, giving him trouble for one last time. Pampered by the nurses of the Intesive Therapy Unit at Mater Dei...
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A Silver Link with the Past
Four years ago, less one month, in my post Laurentius Fenech Birth 1763 I transcribed the birth record of the son of Joanne Fenech and his wife Maria, to whom they gave the names Cajetanus Laurentius...
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A friend in need is a friend indeed - even if he's your cousin's friend!
Mission accomplished! Delayed by six months... and through a helping hand from my cousin's friend Kevin - who I salute and thank wholeheartedly.In Decade Milestone, I described how on the decade of my...
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A Second Attempt
In A Second Objective I attempted to find my wife's missing elements to complete my kids' family tree up to 7 generations, and I failed miserably when I tried to find the below marriages through the...
View ArticleArrival of the Two Acts!
Surprises Ahoy!Monday I received the SMS notification that the acts were dispatched, and today, Thursday, they arrived:two full extracts of two birth records, for a grand total sum of EUR18.64.These...
View ArticleIn the footsteps of my father and of his father...
It is with a mixture of great trepidation, and of great anxiety, that I delve into that part of family history which initiated my interest in genealogy. Anxiety as, as with all genealogical research,...
View ArticleCausa Mortis : Antonio Barbara
I shall start from a very recent but important document: the causa mortis (succession) document of my paternal grandfather who deceased on 7th March 2000 AD, with the document being compiled on the 5th...
View ArticleRedemption of Sufferance
Before we look at the purchase of the field, a glance at the document regarding the redemption of the due mass of sufferance indicates that a payment of Lm20, so 50 times the annual fee due for the...
View Article23rd June 1963 - Purchase of the Land
We now look at the contract dated 23rd June 1963 within which my now late grandfather Antonio bought the share of the field known as tal-Katina. It is also the source of the family tree sketch drawn by...
View ArticleThe Missing Sibling in The Will of Carmelo Barbara (+1942)
In Purchase of the Land, one of the pending questions was: who is the missing sibling? With my grandfather having bought 5/6 of the land from his father and his four siblings, a fifth sibling...
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Rent Payments - 1958
The above scans are of the notebook upon which receipts for payments of rent were noted during the year of 1958.In these pages, Francesca Zammit pays each of the six Barbara siblings, including...
View ArticleContinuing the Journey...
It's been a while since I explored my Barbara line, last seen in the Casal Bisbuti area.Since this week the Maltese Diocese has surprised us all with the online publication of a good chunk of church...
View ArticleBarbara, Michigan, USA
I happened to log in to ancestry.com, in order to install the app onto my android smart phone, and I realised that I had some messages in my inbox. One of them went on the lines of....Hello, I think...
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Back to the Tree
I went to my ancestry briefcase and searched for the letter I had received from Sharon Barbara from Michigan, USA. Given the acquaintance of her niece in my previous post I wanted to bring it back to...
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Barbara + Farrugia : 1652
In searching for the elusive Pietro Barbara, we start from his son's marriage in 1652. A search through the Malta Diocese Archives brings forth this record:Maria & DomenicoDie 14 di luglio 1652 ___...
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