My Fab Finds for this week are (in no particular order)
- A Secret Cruise -- The Rest of the Story (November 1, 2013) by John D. Tew, author of Filiopietism Prism
- I’m Featured in A Major Genealogical Magazine by Taneya Koonce, author of Taneya's Genealogy Blog
- A Big Deal In Family Tree: Why Have They Been So Silent About It? by Larry Cragun, author of Larry Cragun Family And Genealogy Blog
- The 2013 Awards for Top Genealogy/Family History Boards on Pinterest by Valerie Elkins, author of Family Cherished
- Archivo Historico Militar Mexicano (Archive of the Mexican Military) by Moises Garza, author of Mexican Genealogy
- The Future of Indexing by Scott Flinders for FamilySearch Blog
- I'm a RebelMouse! AND The Civil War in Photographs ~ Military Monday by Deb Ruth, author of Adventures in Genealogy
- An Emotional Turn of Events AND Military Honor Roll Project by Heather Wilkinson Rojo, author of Nutfield Genealogy
- How RootsTech looks from this Official Blogger's point of view by Pat Richley-Erickson, author of Dear Myrtle
- To have and to hold by Debi Austen, author of Who Knew?
- Special Pinterest Boards for Veterans Day by Thomas MacEntee, author of GeneaBloggers
- Use Google Books to Get Free Copies of Pages of Family History Library Books by Nathan W. Murphy for FamilySearch Blog
- Pinterest Pinning Proliferates -- are you taking advantage? by Diane L. Richard for Upfront With NGS
- WikiTree and DNA by by Roberta Estes, author of DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy
- Stories by Mom: an introduction by Diane, author of Nuts From the Family Tree
- Once more into FAG fray by Judy G. Russell, author of The Legal Genealogist
- In Genealogical Research Distance Really Matters AND I hope this program gets fully developed and available: Puzzilla.org by James Tanner, author of Genealogy's Star
- Free Access to Historic Canadian Military Records by Kathryn Lake Hogan, author of Looking 4 Ancestors
- 1 Year Blogiversary! by True Lewis, author of NoTe's To MySeLf……
- The Fold3 Honor Wall by Kristie Wells for Ancestry.com Blog
- Janet Hovorka Announces New Activity Book Series for Youth by Randy Seaver, author of Genea-Musings
- Getting More From Find A Grave by J. L. Beeken, author of JLog
- Autosomal DNA Directions by Jenna Mills, author of Desperately Seeking Surnames
- MyHeritage teams up with BillionGraves and Tributes.com by Renee Zamora, author of Renee's Genealogy Blog
New Blog Discoveries
In Case You Missed Them….My Contributions to the Genealogy, Photo Blog, and Vintage Postcard Blogosphere This Week
Jana's Genealogy and Family History Blog
Grandpa's Postcards
Jana's Photo Journal
Thanks for reading!
© 2013 Copyright by Jana Last
Some time ago, I shared a Wednesday's Child post in which I remembered little Carl Martin Gillberg. He was my Grandma Ingrid's only brother. You can read that post by clicking HERE.
At the time I wrote my Wednesday's Child post, I didn't know why Carl Martin died. He was only one year and two months old when he passed away in Sweden on January 23, 1906.
Just to refresh your memory, Carl Martin was the only son born to my paternal great-grandparents, Carl Albert Gillberg and Hilda Maria Carlsson.
Thanks to Linda, author of the Cousin Linda blog, I now know what took the life of little Carl Martin Gillberg.
Linda surprised me with an email letting me know that she had found a Death Book listing Carl Martin Gillberg. She also found Carl's parents and siblings in a House Examine/Parish Book. These documents were from Sweden and she found them on the Swedish website Arkivdigital. I don't have a subscription to that website, so I am thrilled and so thankful that Linda supplied me with these valuable documents. Thank you Linda!
Here is the page from the Death Book1 where Carl Martin Gillberg is listed.
Here's the cropped portion of the book above showing Carl Martin Gillberg's entry.
Because I don't speak or read Swedish, I asked Linda if she could help me out with the column headings in this book. She graciously sent me another email with the column heading translations.
Here's the information contained in this book about Carl's death. Linda, thank you again for your help with this translation.
- Carl's Death Year and Month – January 1906
- Carl's Death Day – 23
- Carl's Sex – Male
- Carl's Name – Carl Martin Gillberg
- Carl's Parents – Carl Albert Gillberg and Hilda Maria Carlsson
- Carl's Birthdate – November 12, 1904
- Carl is listed on Page 1965 in the House Examine/Parish Book
- Carl's Cause of Death – Rickets
- Carl was buried on January 28, 1906
Poor little Carl Martin. He died from Rickets. So, just what is Rickets?
Wikipedia states that,
"The primary cause of rickets is a vitamin D deficiency.[8] Vitamin D is required for proper calcium absorption from the gut. Sunlight, especially ultraviolet light, lets human skin cells convert vitamin D from an inactive to active state. In the absence of vitamin D, dietary calcium is not properly absorbed, resulting in hypocalcaemia, leading to skeletal and dental deformities and neuromuscular symptoms, e.g. hyperexcitability."
MedicineNet.com states the following about Rickets:
Rickets is a disorder caused by a deficiency of vitamin D, calcium, or phosphate. Rickets leads to softening and weakening of the bones and is seen most commonly in children 6-24 months of age. There are several subtypes of rickets, including hypophosphatemic rickets (vitamin-D-resistant rickets), renal or kidney rickets (renal osteodystrophy), and most commonly, nutritional rickets (caused by dietary deficiency of vitamin D, calcium, or phosphate). Classic nutritional rickets is also medically termed osteomalacia.
I wonder what type of Rickets little Carl Martin had. It's interesting that the article in MedicineNet.com said that Rickets is most commonly seen in children aged 6-24 months of age. Carl Martin died when he was 14 months old. Whichever kind he had, his death must have been devastating to his parents and siblings.
I will share page 1965 of the Household Examination/Parish Book, that was referred to in Carl's entry in this Death Book, in a future post. Page 1965, which Linda shared with me, shows Carl listed with his family.
Thanks for reading!
Jana
© 2013 Copyright by Jana Last
1 ArkivDigital Online, Eskilstuna Kloster och Fors F:4 (1903-1913) Bild 520 / sid 44 (AID: v163140.b520.s44, NAD: SE/ULA/10226)↩
I saw Nathan W. Murphy's post in which he shared his "Death Chart" on the FamilySearch blog earlier this week. What an interesting concept! And it can actually be quite helpful in a medical sense, can’t it?
Other bloggers have beat me to the punch in posting their Death Causes Pedigree Charts on their blogs. I'm finally posting mine today.
It's interesting to note that my maternal grandfather died of a stroke at the age of 80, and his father also died of a stroke, although he was 82 years of age at the time of his death.
My paternal grandfather died of a heart attack at 32 years of age, leaving behind a wife and four young children. At this time I don't know his parents' causes of death. His mom was only 38 years old when she died. She passed away eleven days after giving birth to her 7th child.
Creating this chart has been interesting. Unfortunately, cancer seems to be a prevalent cause of death on my dad's side of the family. Not listed in this chart are two of my dad's sisters who also died of cancer. One died from breast cancer at 58 years of age and one from leukemia at 24 years of age. My paternal grandmother, who ultimately died from gall bladder cancer at 89 years of age, was a colon cancer survivor. My dad was a non-smoker, but died from complications of esophageal cancer at 73 years of age. His esophageal cancer was caused by years of acid reflux problems.
Since writing this post, I ordered the death certificates of my paternal great-grandparents (the three "Unknown" boxes at the top of this chart). They should arrive by the end of the month. Yay! My two great-grandparents (the "Unknown" boxes at the bottom of the chart) died in Brazil. Obtaining their death certificates may be more difficult.
Thanks for reading!
Jana
© 2013 Copyright by Jana Last
My Fab Finds for this week are (in no particular order)
- X-DNA Inheritance Charts by Debbie Parker Wayne, author of Deb's Delvings in Genealogy
- On the scent: Eula’s bread AND Halloween’s toll AND Those pesky percentages by Judy G. Russell, author of The Legal Genealogist
- Learning: How to Be Wrong by Heather Collins, contributor at Young & Savvy Genealogists
- Ancestor of Native Americans in Asia was 30% “Western Eurasian” by Roberta Estes, author of DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy
- And you thought that over-sharing was a product of the digital age! by Ameya Warde, author of A. Warde & Co.
- How Has Findagrave.com Profoundly Affected Your Genealogy Research? by Caroline Pointer, author of 4 Your Family Story
- Death Chart by Nathan W. Murphy for FamilySearch Blog
- Great News - 1921 Canadian Census INDEX Online! AND Problems With 1921 Census Indexing & How To Work Around Them AND Hallowe'en Death Chart by Lorine McGinnis Schulze, author of The Olive Tree Genealogy
- What's in your attic? by Deb Ruth, author of Adventures in Genealogy
- The Adventures of Tracking Down a Marriage Record from Galicia by Smadar Belkind Gerson, author of Past-Present-Future
- California Genealogy Resources and Links by Kenneth Marks, author of The Ancestor Hunt
- Do local Genealogy Societies have anything to offer today’s researcher? by Cindy Freed, author of Cindy Freed's Genealogy Circle
- MYSTERIOUS WWII RING – FOLLOW-UP by Jenny Lanctot, author of Are My Roots Showing?
- I ONCE WAS THE GREAT PUMPKIN - AN FM TRADITION by The Footnote Maven, author of footnoteMaven
- Gazing at the Gazettes - beta site by Audrey Collins, author of The Family Recorder
- MyHeritage Signs Partnership Agreement with BillionGraves and Tributes.com, adds 5.5 Gravestone Records and 3.5 Million Obituaries AND New Blog Launched to Tell the Stories of Ellis Island Immigrants by Dick Eastman, author of Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
- More Updates to FamilySearch Photos and Stories—October 29, 2013 by Steve Anderson for FamilySearch Blog
- Thankful Thursday - Guides from the Past by Laura Cosgrove Lorenzana, author of The Last Leaf On This Branch
- THE DISH... by Deb Gould, author of Deb Gould
- Halloween Edition: A Turkey of a Will by Shelley Bishop, author of A Sense of Family
- A death chart by Michele Simmons Lewis, author of Ancestoring
New Blog Discoveries
In Case You Missed Them….My Contributions to the Genealogy, Photo Blog, and Vintage Postcard Blogosphere This Week
Jana's Genealogy and Family History Blog
Grandpa's Postcards
Jana's Photo Journal
Thanks for reading!
© 2013 Copyright by Jana Last
Today I'd like to introduce you to my great-grandfather, Alvaro Borges Da Silva Madeira. He was born on October 5, 1859 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to Joaquim Borges Da Silva and Maximiana De Sa Gomes Madeira. Joaquim was born in Madeira, Portugal and Maximiana was born in Sao Pedro, Rio Grande, Rio Grande du Sul, Brazil.
Alvaro married Rosalia Rodrigues Vasques on January 27, 1890 in Rio Grande, Rio Grande du Sul, Brazil. They were the parents of five children:
- Maria Isabel Vasques Madeira (1890-?)
- Agrippina Vasques Madeira (1894-?)
- Alvaro Borges Madeira (1895-1960)
- Lucia Vasques Madeira (1896-?)
- Sarah Vasques Madeira (1900-1942) [My Grandmother]
According to some writing next to Alvaro's photo, Alvaro was a Naval Engineer. I'm not really sure what a Naval Engineer is or what a Naval Engineer did in Brazil during the late 1800s. I found the following definition for a Naval Engineer online.
TheFreeDictionary.com defines a Naval Engineer as
"a naval officer responsible for the operation and maintenance of the ship's engines"
So, does this mean Alvaro was in the Brazilian Navy at some point in his life? I do have another photo of Alvaro wearing what looks like a military uniform. Here it is -
What do you think? Does it look like Alvaro was wearing a military uniform in this photo?
Alvaro passed away on January 9, 1911 at 51 years of age in Rio Grande, Rio Grand du Sul, Brazil.
Thanks for reading!
Jana
© 2013 Copyright by Jana Last
