Cheri--I'm not seeing a way to follow up on my own post, so I'll reply to
yours and hope others take note. I spoke with a representative of the San
Diego Children's Home, which is still in existence and still has archived
records going back to the 19th century. Apparently, they took in several
This is fascinating--and disturbing. It explains a lot, though--not just
why the mother would say she was widowed when the father lived only a block
away, but also maybe why the children put such distance between themselves
and the parents. It also makes me think they truly were divorced--since
Thanks, Liliana. I've ordered one already. :-)
On Saturday, April 19, 2014 3:51:08 PM UTC-7, Liliana Harris wrote:
The book is *Saudade*, a Portuguese word but the book is in English, by
Winthrop. I found it reviewed on
Since the question originally dealt with the term being used in California,
it might also mean what it has tradtionally meant in the US. The primary
use of the term has been to refer to children who have been abandoned by
their fathers (and usually supported by the state). Even though the
Thanks, Fred. I had never even heard the term before. I'm almost certain
both parents were alive when the children were growing up. And the mother
paid a children's home $20 a month. Even though the parents were both alive
and lived exactly one block apart, maybe it was still considered as the
I haven't been paying real close attention to this thread, but I have one
instance of an orphan in my family. It's in Alabama in the 1850s. The
father died leaving his wife and orphaned children. Not having a father
in Alabama (and other states in America) in the middle 1800s meant
orphaned.
As
The book is *Saudade*, a Portuguese word but the book is in English, by
Winthrop. I found it reviewed on
*http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~azrwgw/*http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~azrwgw/.
It's set in the Azores and filled with interesting facts a fictional
genealogist learns as she
I’m fairly certain I have the answer to that. On Azores GenWeb, which is a
terrific source of information (Forgive me if I’m reporting something most
of the group already knows.), there was a book on the Azores —part fiction,
part non-fiction—reviewed. The fiction part is supposedly
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