Silva

Silva

The Azores → Alameda County, California · a documented generation with no names

The Azores→Alameda County, California

1863 departure under the blue-and-white monarchy flag; the green-and-red republic flag is 1911+.

A sixth generation — named in Texas, unnamed in the Azores

New on 14 September 2026, and the deepest point on Earl's side that a federal record reaches: the 1900 census entry for Frank Silva Sr records that his own father and mother were both born in "Azores Port" S47. That is a sixth generation back from Earl, on a federal record — and it gives no names. Two real people, documented and anonymous. They are drawn as real slots in the vertical chain below, with the names left empty — and again in the deep lines. A generation attested by a census column and carrying no names is still a generation, and it is shown that way rather than dropped. The same is true of Antone Rose's parents, both recorded as born in Portugal on the same 1900 enumeration S55.

Two further couples are attached by FindAGrave parent links — individually well-documented memorials, but not independently corroborated against primary records, so those four are tagged Probable confirm or correct →:

James Daniel Bowles (1831–1889) ⚭ Lydia Williams (1835–1876), parents of William Anderson Bowles S22 · Solomon Alfred Brock (1838–1904) ⚭ Matilda P. Brock (1848–1912), parents of Iona Belle Brock S23 — their marriage now on the Harlan County, Kentucky register, 6 March 1865 S151, and his death bounded to on or before 23 May 1904 by the pension index S152.

Dr. James W. Wright (1825–1882) ⚭ Lucy C. Brooks (1839–1921), parents of Mary Jane Wright, moved to Confirmed on 16 September 2026: her 1934 Texas death certificate names them both S81, and History of Dallas County (1892) names her among his children S85. That book also supplies a further generation — Thomas ⚭ Martha A. (Tate) Wright and Moses T. ⚭ Nancy (Tate) Brooks — named only in print, and held at Probable.

On the Proeger side the sixth generation is half found. Julius Karl Proeger's parents are both named on records — his father Georg Melchior Julius Prüger on the Kirchberg baptism register S69, his mother on the same register as Elisabeth Catharina, née Lösch. Her given name is the one thing on this couple that three documents cannot agree on: the 1844 register, written at the time and read at full resolution, says Elisabeth Catharina; the FamilySearch index of their 1835 marriage says Elisabethe Sabina; and Julius's 1924 Pennsylvania death certificate S68, reported by a granddaughter-in-law eighty years after the fact, says Lossetta. The surname Lösch is the same on all three. This page takes the register as primary and keeps the other two as variants. They now have dates, from FamilySearch index entries rather than from images: he born 25 July 1804 at Erkenbrechtshausen and died 4 February 1870, she born 1803 at Crailsheim; married 1835 at Triensbach, Oberamt Crailsheim S122S123 — Probable, because no parish image has been read for any of it. Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer's parents are named for the first time on the FamilySearch shared tree — Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer (1811 – 1 October 1859, died at Langenburg) and Eva Margaretha Renk (b. 1809), married 29 November 1837 at Gerabronn S124 — and she herself was christened at Langenburg on 21 November 1847, eight kilometres from the parish where her husband was baptised. Confirmed since 25 September 2026: her baptism S184 and her parents' 1837 marriage S444 have been read on the registers themselves.

The Timberman and Martin couples in the fifth generation are new as of 13 September 2026 and are the newest, thinnest part of this chart. They come from the FamilySearch tree rather than from retrieved records, so they stand at Probable and no generation is shown above them S30. Working those two lines back was explicitly out of scope for the run that found them, and at first Nannie Chenault was corroborated only sideways, by a Chenault boarder in the 1930 household S27. That has since changed on the Martin side: Joseph Daniel Martin (1832–1899) is named in his father's own 1849 will S172, and Nannie Chenault (26 January 1844 – 14 April 1915) is Confirmed on her own death certificate S208.

1. G5 · 3rd-great-grandparents · documented, unnamed Frank Silva Sr's father and mother — both born in the Azores. No record gives either name. Two real people, attested by the parent-birthplace columns of the 1900 US Census S47. Their existence is confirmed; their names are not found. This slot is drawn rather than left blank because a documented nameless generation is a finding, not an absence. On that enumeration both are born "Azores Port" — real people on a federal form, entered with the name left empty because no record gives one; the parent-birthplace column is the whole of the evidence and the whole of what is known S47. The generation is confirmed; the two people in it are not named. Existence confirmed Names not found
2. G4 · 2nd-great-grandparents Frank Silva Sr  ⚭  Anna "Annie" L. Silva b. Jun 1863 the Azores – d. 1946 · arrived 1888 · head of household at Niles, Washington Township, Alameda Co. · she b. c.1866 the Azores – d. 17 Dec 1938. Two federal enumerations forty years apart name the archipelago S47S50. Island: Faial, confirmed — his 1946 obituary states it outright, "a native of Fayal, the Azores", naming his wife Anna L. Silva and son Frank Jr in the same notice S67. The 1896 UPEC No. 10 and IDES No. 1 lodge registers had already put Fayal against a matching Francisco da Silva S64S65; the obituary — which also names his lodges, his late son Frank Silva Jr and his granddaughter Aileen — is what lifted that from Probable to Confirmed. ⚠️ Her maiden name is not found in any record retrieved. The arrival gap is now confirmed on an image and given a shape: the 1900 census of Washington Township, Alameda Co., California S141 writes 1888 against him and 1895 against her in the immigration column, and beside them married 13 years — about 1887, a year before he emigrated. A marriage in the islands and a seven-year separated passage is what the sheet supports; ⚠ it is a reading, not a settled fact. ⚠ Her birth year stays open. That image reads Jan 1866, but its age column reads 33 at the 15 June 1900 date, which is right for January 1867 and would be 34 for 1866 — the sheet contradicts itself and cannot choose between the record's 1866 and the tree's about-1867. Also on that page, living in the household: Antonio S. Escobar, laborer, b. Dec 1869 in the Azores, arrived 1895 — the same year she did. Escobar is her father's surname, Thomás Pereira d'Escobar, one generation up; a brother travelling with her is the obvious reading, but the sheet states no relationship and this is not confirmed. ⚠ The 1910 census of the same township makes the arrival year worse, not better. That sheet S146 writes 1887 for both of them — against 1888 and 1895 in 1900. 🔴 And the 1930 sheet, now read off the image rather than taken from an index, makes it four witnesses and four answers S147: 1891 for him and 1899 for her, so the disagreement about her is eleven years wide. ⚠ Both 1930 immigration cells are over-inked and were read at high magnification against clean entries elsewhere on the page. Nothing here may be hardened into a settled arrival year, and no further census can close it — only a manifest or a naturalisation paper. 🔑 That naturalisation paper is now known to exist. The 1910 page had his naturalisation cell overwritten and blotted, with a superscript sitting on the rule between two rows that could not be assigned to either; the 1930 page answers it in a clean cell — Na, naturalised, for both of them, verified against control glyphs in the same hand on the same rows. He was naturalised in California between 1900, when he was recorded alien after twelve years, and 1930, and that file will carry an arrival date and probably a vessel. ⚠ The 1910 age column reads 45 on 19 April 1910, pointing at a birth in April 1864×April 1865 against the June 1863 on the stone — a discrepancy, not a correction. 🔑 1930 does not join that disagreement. Enumerated 7 April 1930, age 66 means a birth between 8 April 1863 and 7 April 1864, so June 1863 sits inside the window and the sheet supports the stone; Ancestry's abt 1864 is subtraction, not a reading. ⚠ An earlier version of this page said three censuses pointed at 1864 — that was our arithmetic, and it is withdrawn. The year is still not settled either way: the 1862 Faial baptism outranks every age column, and 1862 is not 1863. 🆕 The 1930 household also holds Aileane Marie Silva, aged 11, entered as grand daughter — her father Frank Jr had died in 1924, and this is the first document placing her in her grandparents' house. 🆕 Frank's age at first marriage is 24 and hers 19, putting the marriage at about 1887–1888 from each side independently and agreeing with the 1886 Horta record. 🔴 And it carries the hardest fact of the three: Annie bore four children and only one was living in 1910. In 1900 she had two born and two living, Mary and Frank; by April 1910 only Frank Jr survives. Mary and two further children, unnamed on any sheet held here, died between 1900 and 1910 — a count, not an identification, and no names or dates are invented for them. 🔑 And the 1940 sheet, also now read off the image, gives him a trade of his own. At Mission San Jose in Washington Township on 1 May 1940 S149 he is 76, Widowed, Na, owning a $1,000 home, and working as Owner of a Grocery Store — 52 weeks in 1939, no wage line, other income of $50 or more. He had been a farmer in 1930; this is the record behind "a former farmer and grocer" in his obituary. 🔑 His 1935 residence is entered as "Same house", the one question no other census asks, holding him in that house from at least 1935 to 1940. ⚠ He is enumerated alone, so the sheet evidences no relationship; he is his own informant. ⚠ Age 76 on 1 April 1940 brackets the birth to 2 April 1863 × 1 April 1864 — June 1863 sits inside it, and so does part of 1864, so 1940 is consistent with the stone and not a witness for either year. ⚠ The header of that sheet says Mission San Jose, not Niles; the FamilySearch index of the same district says Niles S50, and where the sheet and the index differ the sheet is preferred. 🔑 And the 1920 sheet, read this run, finally dates the naturalisation and puts four of them in one frame. At Mission San Jose Town on 17 January 1920 S150 the household is Frank (Head, Farmer, owning his farm free of mortgage), Anna, their son Frank Jr and his wife Mildred, entered as daughter-in-law, with a boarder. 🔑 Both parents are written immigrated 1895 and naturalised 1904 — the first and only figures on any document; ⚠ a census naturalisation year is a pointer to a file, not a certificate, and that Alameda or federal file of about 1904 has not been found. 🔴 ⚠ The parents’ ages on this sheet are wrong and are rejected here: he is entered 64 against 56, she 62 against 52. The two young adults on the same five lines are exact — Frank Jr 22, Mildred 21 — so the error is the informant’s guessing, not a new birth-year candidate, and Frank Jr’s self-written 2 December 1897 survives an independent test S148. ⚠ Aileane, born August 1918, is absent from that household and the record does not explain it. Confirmed Island Faial — confirmed
3. G3 · great-grandparents Frank T. Silva  ⚭  Mildred A. Rose She d. 7 Oct 1960, Alameda Co., as Mildred A Springer S316. He was b. 2 Dec 1897 Alameda Co., d. 3 Dec 1924, one day after his 27th birthday S52S53. ⚠️ The middle name "Thomas" is not promoted — every record gives "Frank T." or plain "Frank". On his own marker he is "Frank Silva, Jr"; he is confirmed as Frank Sr's son by the 1920 census, which gives his relationship to head of household as Son S52S53. Confirmed
4. G2 · grandmother Aileane Marie Silva 15 Aug 1918 Alameda Co. – 10 Jan 2001 National City. In the 1930 census she is in her grandparents' household as "Granddaughter", age 11 — the record that welds this line together across the father who died in 1924 S49. Confirmed

The island: Faial, Confirmed. Frank Silva Sr's obituary of November 1946, retrieved in two independent newspaper captures of the same syndicated notice, states it in his family's own words: "He was a native of Fayal, the Azores." The same notice names his lodges — IDES No. 1 and the UPEC — his late wife Anna L. Silva, his late son Frank Silva Jr. and his granddaughter Aileen Roberts, so it is beyond doubt the same man S67. The 1896 lodge registers S64S65 had carried it at Probable; they now stand as corroboration. "Pico" and "Faial" as a DNA inference S46 are unchanged and were never what carried this. ⚠️ Confirming the island does not license attaching a parish. Silv* born 1862–64 in the Azores still returns 1,926 results, and the one near-match on Faial remains deliberately not attached.

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Frank Silva Sr

Azores, PortugalConfirmed

The Azorean immigrant, June 1863 – 27 November 1946 · new to this record, 14 Sept 2026

• Died 27 November 1946 at San Jose Hospital, aged 83, after more than fifty years at Mission San José; buried beside his wife at St. Joseph's, Fremont S67S54
• Born June 1863 in "Azores Port" — his own line in the 1900 census: age 37, Head of household, married 13 years, arrived in the United States in 1888 S47
• ⚠️ He is indexed in that census under the Anglicised spelling "Frank Silver", which is why earlier searches for Silva in Alameda County never surfaced him.
• The 1910 census of the same township puts father and son in one household on one line-pair — Frank Jr entered as Son, age 12, born California of two Portuguese parents — and records him a Foreman in a wine cellar, owning his house free of mortgage, married 23 years S146
• 🔑 Re-read 22 September 2026: the column reads Foreman, Wine Cellar, wage earner — and in 1910 his wife could speak English and he could not. The column asks whether able to speak English, or, if not, give language spoken; Annie's cell reads English, Frank's Portuguese. Ancestry files hers as Native Tongue: English, the reverse of what the column says. By 1930 both are marked as speaking English S146S147
• The 1930 census finds him still in Washington Township, in Mission Precinct, enumerated 7 April 1930 — age 66, owning his home, valued $1,000, no radio set, occupation beginning "Farm", with Anna beside him at 61 S147
• 🔑 He was naturalised — confirmed. Column 23 of the 1930 sheet reads Na for both him and Anna, in a clean cell. The reading was checked against control glyphs in the same hand on the same rows: the enumerator's capital N in "No" matches it exactly; his capital P in "Portugal" does not resemble it. That corroborates the blotted, unassignable superscript on the 1910 page, which on its own could not say S147S146
• 🔴 So a naturalisation file exists, and it is the most valuable document still unheld. He was naturalised in California between the 1900 return, which recorded him alien after twelve years, and 1930. A naturalisation packet carries an arrival date and often the vessel — the one thing four censuses have failed to agree on S147
• ⚠️ His year of arrival is not settled, and four censuses give four answers. 1900 says 1888, 1910 says 1887 (for his wife too, where 1900 had said 1895), and the 1930 sheet, read off the image, says 1891 for him and 1899 for her — the spread on her is now eleven years. ⚠️ Both 1930 immigration cells are over-inked and are read at high magnification against clean entries elsewhere on the same page. No year on this page is hardened. Only a passenger manifest or the naturalisation paper can close it S141S146S147
• ⚠️ The age columns and the gravestone: one disagreement, not three. Age 45 on 19 April 1910 implies a birth in April 1864×April 1865, against the June 1863 on the stone — a discrepancy, not a correction, because an age column is the enumerator's arithmetic. 🔑 But 1930 does not join it. Enumeration there was 7 April 1930, so age 66 means a birth between 8 April 1863 and 7 April 1864, and June 1863 falls inside that window — that sheet supports the stone. Ancestry's abt 1864 index is subtraction, not a reading. ⚠️ An earlier version of this page said three censuses pointed at 1864; that was our arithmetic and it is withdrawn. None of it settles the year: the 1862 Faial baptism outranks every age column, and 1862 is not 1863 S146S147
• Married about 1887–1888, from both sides independently. The 1930 sheet records his age at first marriage as 24 and hers as 19, which agrees with the 12 June 1886 Santa Bárbara, Horta record and with 1910's married 23 years S147
• 🆕 Aileane Marie Silva is in his household in 1930, at 11, entered as grand daughter. Her father Frank Jr had died in 1924; her grandparents were raising her. This is the first document placing her in that house. ⚠️ The sheet gives only an age, bracketing her birth to 8 April 1918 × 7 April 1919 — no day, no month S147
• 🔴 Four children born, one living. In 1910 Annie is recorded with 4 children born and only 1 living; in 1900 she had two born, two living — Mary, b. August 1896, and Frank. Mary and two further children, unnamed on any sheet held here, died between 1900 and 1910. No names, no dates, no places are on the document and none are supplied S146
• The 1940 census, now read off the image rather than taken from an index, finds him at Mission San Jose in Washington Township — E.D. 1-180, sheet 20-B, line 59, household 481, enumerated 1 May 1940: age 76, Head, Widowed, birthplace "Azores", citizenship Na, home owned and valued $1,000 S149. The 1920 and 1930 returns say "Portugal" S48S49 — the same fact at lower resolution; enumerators commonly wrote the sovereign state.
• 🔑 He owned and ran a grocery store. Occupation Owner, industry Grocery Store, 52 weeks worked in 1939, 48 hours in the census week, no wage line but other income of $50 or more — the signature of a self-employed proprietor. He was a farmer in 1930, so this is a documented change of trade at the age of 76, and it is the record behind the "former farmer and grocer" in his own obituary S149S67
• 🔑 Residence on 1 April 1935: "Same house." It is the one question no other census asks, and it holds him in that Mission San Jose house continuously from at least 1935 to 1940. With 1900, 1910, 1930 and his son's 1918 draft card, the family is documented in Washington Township without a gap S149S148
• 🔑 Widowed in 1940, and naturalised a third time. Column 13 reads Wd — Anna had died before 1 April 1940 — and column 17 reads Na, agreeing with 1930 and with the blotted 1910 cell S149
• ⚠️ The 1940 age column does not settle the birth year either. Age 76 at census day 1 April 1940 brackets the birth to 2 April 1863 × 1 April 1864: June 1863 falls inside that window — and so does part of 1864. The sheet is consistent with the stone and is not an independent witness for either year. Ancestry's abt 1864 is subtraction from the census year, not a reading, and the withdrawn "three censuses" framing is not restored by it S149
• ⚠️ Correction: the sheet says Mission San Jose, not Niles. This page previously placed the 1940 return at Niles, following the FamilySearch index of E.D. 1-180 S50. The printed header of the sheet itself gives the township as Washington and the unincorporated place as Mission San Jose. Both lie in Washington Township, a few miles apart; where the sheet and the index differ, the sheet is preferred S149
• ⚠️ In 1940 he is enumerated alone — household 481 holds one person — so that document evidences no family relationship at all. He is, however, his own informant: the enumerator's circled informant mark stands beside his name S149
• 🔑 The 1920 census puts four of them under one roof. At Mission San Jose Town in Washington Township — E.D. 213, sheet 8-B, lines 59–63, dwelling 131, family 132, enumerated 17 January 1920 — the household is Frank (Head), Anna (Wife), Frank (Son), Mildred entered as Daughter-in-law, and a boarder, Frank Vargas, aged 7. He is a Farmer on a general farm he holds owned, free of mortgage, with the farm-schedule mark in the margin S150
• 🔑 It is the first document anywhere that DATES the naturalisation. Every other sheet writes only Na; this one writes immigrated 1895 and naturalised 1904 against both him and Anna. The blotted 1910 cell and the clean Na of 1930 and 1940 are finally given a year S150S146S147
• ⚠️ A naturalisation year on a census is a pointer, not a certificate. It points at an Alameda County or federal naturalisation file of about 1904. That file has not been found, and until it is, 1904 is the enumerator's answer and not a recorded date S150
• 🔴 Correction stated on the page: his age on this sheet is wrong, and it is rejected here. He is entered as 64 in January 1920; June 1863 makes him 56, and Anna is entered as 62 against 1867, which makes her 52. Both are overstated by eight to ten years. The reason for rejecting them rather than reopening the birth year is on the same five lines of the sheet: the two young adults are exact — Frank Jr at 22 and Mildred at 21 are both right. The error is confined to the two people whose ages an informant would have been guessing, and 1910, 1930 and 1940 all agree with June 1863 once their reference dates are applied S150
• ⚠️ Aileane Marie Silva, born August 1918, is not on this sheet — she should be about sixteen months old, and the household runs Head, Wife, Son, Daughter-in-law, Boarder and stops. The record does not explain her absence and no explanation is supplied for it here. She appears in her grandparents' house ten years later, in 1930 S150S147
• ⚠️ The 1920 schedule records ages only — no months, no days — and writes "Portugal" as the whole birthplace. Azores and Fayal come from other documents S150S67
• Island: Faial Confirmed — his own November 1946 obituary says it in plain words: "He was a native of Fayal, the Azores" S67. Before that it was an inference from the 1896 registers of two Portuguese fraternal lodges at Mission San Jose, UPEC Council No. 10 and IDES Council No. 1, which record a Francisco da Silva, 33, married, farm labourer, island Fayal, with Anna da Silva as his heir; and in the same IDES book in 1914 a Frank Silva, 16, born "Mission", names Anna L. Silva as his mother S64S65. The obituary names the same lodges, the same wife and the same son as those books, so it both settles the island and confirms that the lodge rows are this man. Mission San Jose in 1896–1914 is consistent with every census — none names a town before Niles in 1940 — and with Aileane's own "Mission San" birthplace.
• Died 27 November 1946 at San Jose Hospital, a resident of Mission San José for more than fifty years, a former farmer and grocer, member of IDES Council No. 1, St. Anthony's Sodality and UPEC S67; buried St. Joseph's Cemetery, Fremont / Centerville — the Portuguese Catholic cemetery of the Mission San Jose district S54
• ⚠️ A California Death Index entry for a Frank Silva, b. 1 June 1863, d. 27 November 1946 at Santa Barbara shares his birth date and his death date and is not him: the obituary puts this man's death at San Jose Hospital in Alameda County, for which that index is simply incomplete. Recorded here, and deliberately not attached, so that nobody buys the wrong certificate.
• 🆕 Studio portrait, about 1908–1912 Confirmed (family testimony): he, his wife Anna and their son Frank Jr, from the print kept by his great-granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins, who named all three on 1 October 2026: “Frank Da Silva Jr. My mother’s Dad, his Mother and Father Frank Da Silva Senior”. In Photos below.

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Anna "Annie" L. Silva

Azores, PortugalConfirmed

The Azorean immigrant · c.1866–1938

• Born about 1866–68 in "Azores Port" — listed as Wife, age 34, on the same 1900 census page as her husband S47
• Died 17 December 1938, Alameda County; buried beside her husband at St. Joseph's S53S54. The dates interlock without strain: the 1940 census records Frank Sr as Widowed.
• She is the woman who raised Earl's grandmother. In 1930, six years after her son's death, Aileane is in her house, enumerated as "Granddaughter" S49
• 🔴 Four children born, one living. Her own columns on the 1910 sheet read four children born, one living — three children of Frank and Anna died before April 1910 and are named nowhere in this research. No names, no dates, no places are on the document and none are supplied S146
• 🔑 She had the English in this house first. In 1910 her cell reads English and her husband's Portuguese — Ancestry's Native Tongue: English inverts the column. Frank was Foreman, Wine Cellar on the same sheet S146
• ⚠ Her arrival year is an open question, and the 1930 sheet contradicts itself. 1910 gives 1887 for both of them, married 23 years; 1930 gives Frank 1891, Anna 1899 — and on the same lines ages at first marriage of 24 and 19 put the marriage at c.1888, before either arrival. Either the 1930 years are wrong, or they married in the Azores and emigrated separately, husband first. Recorded, not resolved; a passenger list or the naturalisation petitions would close it S146S147
• Her death is carried in the California Death Index, 1905–1939, and the printed page — read from the image, not from a transcription — gives her state file number 71446: SILVA · ANNA · L · age 70 · 12 17 38 · 71446, page 6332 S136. There are eleven Anna Silvas on that page, which is why the line had to be read rather than assumed. Name, age and date all match what is already recorded; the index confirms and overturns nothing.
• ⚠️ Her maiden name is Not found — and that is a real gap, not an oversight. No record retrieved gives it, and the death index cannot: it is a printed list of surname, initial, age, date and file number, and it carries no parents and no birthplace. That is exactly what the file number is for. 71446 is the handle for ordering the actual California death certificate from Sacramento — the document that would name her parents and her birthplace, and so the one record that could speak to the Escobar/Faial question. The number is the next concrete step on this gap, not the answer to it S136.
• 🆕 Studio portrait, about 1908–1912 Confirmed (family testimony): she, her husband Frank Silva Sr and their son Frank Jr, from the print kept by her great-granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins, who named all three on 1 October 2026: “Frank Da Silva Jr. My mother’s Dad, his Mother and Father Frank Da Silva Senior”. In Photos below.

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Frank T. Silva

CaliforniaConfirmed

Aileane's father · 1897–1924 · on his marker, "Frank Silva, Jr"

• 🔑 Born 2 December 1897 — the date is in his own hand. His World War I draft registration card, read off the image at full resolution, writes "4. Date of birth: Dec. 2, 1897" on a form he signed beneath the printed affirmation "I affirm that I have verified above answers and that they are true" S148
• ⚠️ That date is self-reported on a form he signed, not a birth register. It is evidence of a different kind from a baptism or a civil birth entry, and it is not treated here as though it were one S148
• ⚠️ The card's own arithmetic agrees with it, which is why it is trusted as far as it goes. Age 20 at 12 September 1918 brackets the birth to 13 September 1897 × 12 September 1898, and 2 December 1897 falls inside that window S148
• 🔑 Box 10, "Native Born", is ticked — boxes 11 (Naturalized) and 12 (citizen by his father's naturalization) are empty, as are both alien boxes. He was a citizen by birth, independently of and consistently with the Na recorded against his parents in 1930 S148S147
• ⚠️ The card gives no birthplace. The revised Form No. 1 records citizenship status but not the town or state, so Native Born fixes the country and nothing finer — California comes from the 1920 and 1930 censuses, not from this card S48S49
• 🆕 The first document in which he himself names Mildred. Nearest relative: "Wife Mildred Silva", at his own address, Mission San Jose — which dates the marriage to before 12 September 1918, consistent with Aileane's 1918 birth S148
• 🔑 The 1920 census tests that self-reported date against an enumerator, and it holds. On the sheet of 17 January 1920, taken against a reference date of 1 January 1920, he is 22 — and 2 December 1897 makes him exactly 22 on that day. A birth in December 1898 would have made him 21. The date he wrote in his own hand survives an independent test S150S148
• 🔑 And the 1900 sheet's own age column agrees with him against its own year cell. That page writes "Dec 1898" in the month-and-year columns but age 2 at the 15 June 1900 enumeration. December 1898 would have made him 1; December 1897 makes him 2. Where the two cells of that sheet disagree, the age column is the one that matches the draft card, and the year cell is the erroneous one S141S148
• ⚠️ Three documents now point at December 1897 and none of them is a birth register. A self-affirmed draft card, an age column in 1900 and an age column in 1920 are consistent with one another; they are not the same thing as a civil birth entry or a baptism, and no California birth record for him has been found S148S150
• 🔑 In January 1920 he and Mildred are living in his parents' house. He is entered as Son, a Laborer in general work, born California; Mildred, 21, is entered as Daughter-in-law. It is the only document that places the young couple under Frank Sr's roof, and it is the sheet behind the "Mildresk" index entry carried on her card — now read rather than indexed S150
• ⚠️ Their daughter Aileane, born August 1918, is not on that sheet, though she should be about sixteen months old. The record does not explain it and nothing is invented to fill the gap S150
• 🆕 Laborer for Ritchie Bros Co., Mission San Jose — the first occupation and employer on any document for him; medium height, medium build, gray eyes, brown hair, no disqualifying injury. Registered 12 September 1918 at the Local Board for Division No. 2, Alameda County, Hayward, serial 939, order A 2696 S148
• ⚠️ Frank Sr appears nowhere on the draft card. The father/son link is not evidenced by it and continues to rest on the 1910 and 1920 census sheets S146S48
• 🆕 Ran — owned, per family — Coste's saloon, a speakeasy at Mission San José during Prohibition. His granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named him in a newspaper clipping of the saloon's line-up, third from left: "My Grandfather Frank Da Silva Jr. He was the owner of this speakeasy in Mission San Jose Ca." (via Earl Proeger, 1 October 2026). Prohibition began in January 1920 and he died in December 1924, so the photograph is most likely c. 1920–1924. ⚠️ This is family testimony, not a record — no licence, directory, court or newspaper entry has yet been found; the clipping and the full reasoning are under Photos and Documents below.
• Died 3 December 1924, Alameda County — one day after his 27th birthday — California Death Index, middle initial T intact S53. No other Frank Silva dying in the county in 1924–25 carries both that initial and that date.
• Buried St. Joseph's Cemetery, Fremont / Centerville, in what is almost certainly the family plot S54
• Son of Frank Silva Sr and Anna Silva — the 1920 census gives his relationship to head of household as "Son", age 22, married, living in his parents' house with his wife S48
• ⚠️ The middle name "Thomas" is not confirmed and is not promoted. Every record retrieved gives "Frank T." or plain "Frank" — the initial is documented, the name behind it is Probable, from a user tree S12. This page called him "Frank Thomas Silva" until 14 September 2026; that was going further than the evidence.
• 🆕 Two studio portraits Confirmed (family testimony), both identified on 1 October 2026 by his granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins: one of about 1908–1912 with his parents — “Frank Da Silva Jr. My mother’s Dad, his Mother and Father Frank Da Silva Senior” — and one of two couples, about 1915–1920, with his wife Mildred, her sister Helen (Rose) and Helen’s husband Victor Johnson (confirmed by Patti). ⚠️ Helen married Victor only after 1942, and Frank Jr died in 1924, so the man beside Helen may be her first husband William Farrell; not settled. Both are in Photos below.

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Mildred A. Rose

CaliforniaConfirmed

Aileane's mother · 1898–1960

Mildred Rose Silva — detail from the three-generation photograph (FamilySearch Memory 9943586) S323.

• Born 26 July 1898, California — the day is from the California Death Index S316; enumerated as a two-year-old daughter in her own father's household in the 1900 census, Washington Township, Alameda County, where she and her twin brother Edward are bracketed "Twins" S55. That is what lifts her from a name in a parent field to a documented person with parents of her own.
• In 1920 she is in her husband's parents' house, indexed by OCR as "Mildresk" Silva, born 1899 California S48
• Her daughter's 1918 birth index entry carries Rose in the mother's-maiden-name field — independent corroboration from a vital-records index S56
• Married Frank T. Silva (Frank Silva Jr) before September 1918, when he named "Wife Mildred Silva" on his draft card; in January 1920 the couple were in his father's household S48. Later surname Springer S316.
• Second marriage, to William Springer, after Frank Silva Jr died in 1924; date and place not yet found. Her granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named him on 1 October 2026 Confirmed (family testimony): “My Grandmother. Moms Mother. And her second husband William Springer.” She died as Mildred A Springer S316. The 1950 census finds Mildred Springer, 51, born California, with her husband William Springer, 50, born California, an auto parts salesman, in Oakland, Alameda County Probable (name, age, birthplace and husband match; nothing else on the entry ties it to her) — United States Census 1950, ED 67-450B, p. 76, line 7. The marriage record itself is not yet found.
• A photograph of Mildred and William Springer by a picket fence, late 1930s or 1940s, from Patricia Collins’s collection, is in Photos below with its AI-assisted enhanced version.
• Died 7 October 1960, Alameda County, California, as Mildred A Springer Confirmed (index; certificate not seen) — California Death Index 1940–1997: born 26 July 1898, California, mother's maiden name Mendonca S316. The birth date matches the 1900 twins entry and the maiden name matches her mother's, so this is her. The 1960 date is restored. It was withdrawn on 14 September because searches under Silva and Rose found nothing; she had remarried and died as Springer.
• A three-generation photograph shows her with her daughter Aileane and granddaughter Nancy S323; it is in Photos below and her portrait above is cut from it.
• 🆕 A studio portrait of two couples, about 1915–1920 Confirmed (family testimony): Mildred and her first husband Frank Da Silva Jr, with her sister Helen (Rose) and Helen’s husband Victor Johnson, as her granddaughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named them on 1 October 2026 (Helen is Mrs. Victor Johnson in Mildred’s 1960 death notice; Patti confirmed the name). ⚠️ Helen married Victor only after her first husband William Farrell was killed on 10 June 1946 (she was still Mrs. O’Farrell in 1942), and Frank Jr died in 1924, so the man beside Helen in this photograph may be Farrell; not settled. In Photos below.

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Aileane Marie Silva

CaliforniaConfirmed

Paternal grandmother · 1918–2001

• Born 15 August 1918, Alameda County, California; NUMIDENT gives the birthplace as "Mission San" S12S13
• Died 10 January 2001, National City, San Diego County, California S12S13
• Married (1) William Harry Proeger, 13 August 1940, Heber City, Wasatch County, Utah Confirmed — Wasatch County marriage record, certificate no. 2915, read from the register image 20 September 2026 S125. He was 25, she was 21; both gave residence as "Rockford, Madison County, Illinois." Married by Alfred Sharp, County Clerk and LDS Elder; witnesses Bert M. Lindsay and Marjorie Duke, neither family. Three children: William Leonard Proeger (b. 1941, Los Angeles) S43, Nancy Aileen Proeger (b. 6 April 1937, Niles, California S275; d. 9 January 1973, Wallowa County, Oregon S298), and Patty Proeger. Nancy predated the marriage; Earl's direct testimony identifies William Harry as her father S24.
• Married (2) Clifford Ray Parliman, 31 May 1943, Los Angeles Confirmed — Los Angeles County marriage record; she is indexed as Aileane S Proeger, using her first married name S51. No children recorded.
• Married (3) Earl Theodore Roberts, 8 February 1946, Los Angeles Confirmed — Los Angeles County marriage record, read 16 September 2026; both parties aged 27; she is indexed under her first married name, Proeger S88. He was a naval officer. One child: Kathy Roberts (living). ⚠ He is no kin to the Anna Blanche Roberts in the generation above — two unrelated Roberts families sit on this tree and share nothing but the surname; do not merge them.
• 🆕 A public-records address index has “Aileane S Roberts”, born 15 August 1918, living at National City and San Diego, California, in 1975, some twenty-six years before her death there Probable confirm or correct → S768. A commercial list, index only, but the birth date matches to the day. added 26 September 2026.
• 🆕 Photograph, 10 February 1937 Confirmed (family testimony): she and William Harry Proeger on the grass with a cat, three and a half years before their 1940 marriage. Their daughter Patricia (Proeger) Collins named them on 1 October 2026: “My father William Harry Proeger and my Mother Aileane Da Silva”. In Photos below.

Her own "cousins list", c. 1996. Written by Eileen herself about thirty years ago, for Tasha Proeger, Earl's sister, who later sent it to Earl. Its closing line is addressed to her: "I thought you might like to know how many cousins you have." Each of her four children appears with that child's children and their ages. It is undated, but Bill's 55 and Earl's 29 place it in c. 1996. Ages are hers. Every "b. c." year below is derived from age minus 1996, not taken from a record S205.

• Nancy — "deceased" at the time of writing. Her children:
  • Sheryl, 40 (b. c.1956, derived): children Bryan, 16 (b. c.1980, derived); Stephanie, 14 (b. c.1982, derived); Amanda, 11 (b. c.1985, derived)
  • Joann, 39 (b. c.1957, derived): children Robert, 22 (b. c.1974, derived); Derek confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026, 12 (b. c.1984, derived); Rex confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026, 11 (b. c.1985, derived)
  • Elain (spelled without a final E) confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026, 35 (b. c.1961, derived): child Tessa confirmed by Earl Proeger, 23 Sep 2026, 11 (b. c.1985, derived)
  • David, 24 (b. c.1972, derived)
• Patricia, 58 (b. c.1938, derived). Listed under her:
  • Ginger, 40 (b. c.1956, derived): children Edgar, 16 (b. c.1980, derived); India confirmed by Earl Proeger, 23 Sep 2026, 13 (b. c.1983, derived); Carolina, 10 (b. c.1986, derived). After Carolina's name: "(adopted) Same family"
  • Rusty: "deceased", "57yrs". At 57 he cannot be the child of a 58-year-old. He is more likely Patricia's late husband, but the sheet does not say. 🆕 Patricia married Albert R. Collins in 1967, when he was 48 (born c.1918–19) S1207; Earl confirmed him as his uncle on 2 October 2026 Family testimony. If Rusty is Albert, “57yrs” would be his age at death (c.1975–76), not his age on the list. Nothing yet links the two names.
  • Robbie, 36 (b. c.1960, derived): children John Paul, 4 (b. c.1992, derived); Kelsey, 3 (b. c.1993, derived)
  • Carl, 35 (b. c.1961, derived): children Mindy, 10 (b. c.1986, derived); Albert, 7 (b. c.1989, derived)
  • Teal confirmed by Earl Proeger, 23 Sep 2026, 27 (b. c.1969, derived)
• Bill, 55: children Earl, 29; Mark-Damon, 24, written as one entry with one age (the twins, b. 1972); Tasha, 21 (b. c.1975, derived); J J, 2 (b. 1994 S24) = John Jacob “Jacob” Proeger, Earl’s half-brother, Bill’s son confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026
• Kathie (the list's spelling of Kathy Roberts), 40 (b. c.1956, derived). No children are listed.

Nancy's death, settled 23 September 2026: the sheet calls Nancy deceased by c. 1996, and the record agrees. She died on 9 January 1973 in Wallowa County, Oregon, as Nancy Wortman (Oregon Death Index, certificate 73-01723) S298; the Wallowa County Chieftain reported that she took her own life at Wallowa Lake S343. The 2025 date this page once carried for her was an error. Sheryl on this list matches Sheryl Lynn Parsons, Nancy's daughter and the owner of the Parsons/Prejean Ancestry tree.

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• Daughter of Frank T. Silva and Mildred A. Rose. Five records agree, none derived from another: the NUMIDENT parent fields S13; the California Birth Index entry for her own birth, whose mother's-maiden-name field reads Rose S56; the 1943 Parliman marriage record, which assigns Frank Silva the role "Father Of Bride" and Mildard [Mildred] A Rose the role of mother S51; the 1946 Roberts marriage record, which names both again — "Lank" [Frank] Silva and Mildred Ross S88; and her grandfather's November 1946 obituary, which calls her his granddaughter S67
• In 1930 she is living with her paternal grandparents, Frank and Anna Silva, at Washington Judicial Township, Alameda County — the census lists her at age 11 with the relationship "Granddaughter", and gives both her parents' birthplace as California S49. Her father had died in December 1924. She was six.
• The NUMIDENT birthplace fragment "Mission San" resolves: Mission San Jose is one of the villages of Washington Township — the Portuguese-Azorean district, now part of Fremont, where the whole Silva family lived S47S50
• Roberts was her third husband, not her second — the 1943 Parliman marriage S51 came between Proeger and Roberts. The Los Angeles County marriage record, read 16 September 2026, gives both parties aged 27 and names his parents Leon H Roberts and Bessie H Henderson S88. He was a naval officer — the 1958 photograph aboard USS Wexford County shows the officer's cap. ⚠ He is no kin to the Anna Blanche Roberts in the generation above — she was born a Roberts at Bellaire, Ohio in 1892 S17, he to Leon H Roberts and Bessie H Henderson in Massachusetts about 1918 S88. Two unrelated Roberts families sit on this tree and share nothing but the surname; do not merge them.
• Recorded variously as Aileane Roberts, Aileane Silva Proeger, Aileen Marie Proeger and Aileane Silva Parliman S13; her grandfather's November 1946 obituary names her as "Aileen Roberts of Philadelphia" S67 — the only record so far of where the Roberts household was that year, nine months after the Los Angeles wedding.

Earl's own given names are "Robert Earl," and his father's stepfather from the age of five was Earl … Roberts. A striking fit — but it is an inference about naming, not a record. A lead for family interviews, nothing more.

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Clifford Ray Parliman

Confirmed

Grandmother's 2nd husband · dates unknown

• Dates unknown
• Married Aileane Marie Silva on 31 May 1943, Los Angeles — her second of three marriages S51
• No children recorded S51

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Notes on this line

1. S12FamilySearch Tree public pages, no login required for deceased persons — William Harry Proeger KC1N-799, Aileane Marie Silva L9GZ-NDP, William Leonard Proeger L7GK-VBK, Queen Anne Proeger LHQW-W1L — ancestors.familysearch.org. User-contributed; event lists are treated as PROBABLE unless separately sourced.
2. S13US Social Security NUMIDENT / Death Master File, republished verbatim — see S2. A government record; the parent-name fields come from the person's own SS-5 application.
3. S17FindAGrave memorial 298908631, Anna Blanche Roberts Proeger (1892–1942) — findagrave.com/memorial/298908631.
4. S22FindAGrave memorial 63936320, William Anderson Bowles (1858–1936), Potosi Cemetery — findagrave.com/memorial/63936320.
5. S23FindAGrave memorial 63936483, Iona Belle Brock Bowles (1865–1947), Potosi Cemetery — findagrave.com/memorial/63936483.
6. S24Family testimony — Earl Proeger, September 2026. Stated directly by the family and recorded on their word. Covers: the Silva maiden name and William Harry Proeger as his father's father (both of which record research had already reached independently); and, on Kristin's side, her father Thomas Caffey — raised in Austin, University of Texas, died at Austin — and her mother Lavonne Walker, Walker being her maiden name. Not a document. No record has been retrieved for any of the Caffey or Walker statements, no dates were supplied for either person, and none has been estimated. Carried throughout as Family testimony, never as Confirmed. Superseded in part on 13 September 2026: the Thomas Caffey statements are now carried on records instead — see S31–S35. The Lavonne Walker statements still rest on this source alone. Extended 17 September 2026: the family further states that she was born Walker, married a Caffey and divorced, then married a Danielson who has since died — which is why her photographs are captioned Danielson. It matches the Caffey obituary's "former wife, LaVonne Danielson" [S31] independently. Her present surname and her widowhood rest on this testimony alone; the second husband's given name, and every date and place attached to that marriage, were not supplied and are not published. Extended 22 September 2026 (eyewitness): Earl was present at the birth of his half-brother John Jacob “Jacob” Proeger, born in 1994 to William Leonard Proeger and Briana Castro Proeger; Earl states the birth was one month before his own wedding ceremony with Kristin, which was held on Guam (the marriage itself was registered in Travis County; see the next entry). No birth record has been retrieved. Extended 22 September 2026 (Earl’s own account of his marriage): “Kristin and I married on Guam in a ceremony but registered our marriage in Travis County […] and we could marry without swearing, a scruple we held as Quakers and which Guam had no accommodation for.” The only date held is the Travis County registration, 1994, from the Texas Marriage Index [S2]; the date of the Guam ceremony was not supplied and is not published.
7. S271930 US Census, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee, lines 97–100 — Timberman, Nancy (52, widowed, head, high-school teacher); Timberman, Louise M. (13, daughter); Martin, Emma (59, sister, public-school teacher); Chenault, Ermin (28, female, boarder, saleslady in dry goods). FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:SP7V-TVZ. Page image read directly. The single page that proves the Martin maiden name from a record rather than a tree. Corrected 26 September 2026: the boarder was first read as a man, “Ernest Chernault”, as FamilySearch indexed him. A second scan of the same sheet, Ancestry record 66161418 (1930 census, ED 83-3, sheet 29B, line 100, image 4547930_00097), set beside it reads Chenault, Ermin, sex F, a sales lady in dry goods. The Chenault link to the family is unchanged.
8. S30FamilySearch Tree — Coffman, Timberman and Martin persons: Louise Martin Timberman LYBS-P4G, Robert William Coffman LDS1-NHV, James Harris Timberman Jr 9W7S-C6X, Nancy Louise Martin KHK5-FCL, Joseph Daniel Martin KG8Y-MV3, Nannie Chenault KZZ7-P9F. Community-curated, not a record — the counterpart of S12 on the maternal side. Event lists and dates drawn from it are tagged Probable throughout. Cited here for Robert William Coffman's sibling list, which independently matches S16.
9. S43California Birth Index, 1905–1995 — FamilySearch record ark:/61903/1:1:VLNB-2LT, "Entry for William Lenard Proeger and Silva, 1941." Read in a signed-in FamilySearch session, where the day is not masked. This is the same index entry as S4; the free view returns it with the day hidden, which is why the birth date stood at Probable on this page until 13 September 2026. No paywall was defeated — a free FamilySearch account is all it takes.
10. S46Autosomal DNA — Ancestry Composition report, 23andMe, Earl's own test, read 13 September 2026 (report version dated 15 September 2025). Supplies the percentages quoted in What the DNA says: European 99.2% · Western European 47.0% · British & Irish 28.9% · Spanish & Portuguese 21.6%, of which Portuguese & Galician 18.3% (Pico and Faial Islands) · Nordic 1.2% · Italian & Maltese 0.5% · Western Asian & North African 0.8%. Not a document, and not treated as one — everything drawn from it carries DNA evidence and nothing on this page is promoted to Confirmed on its strength. The account is deliberately not linked and no login is given. The same account holds a DNA Relatives match list of roughly 1,500 living people; none of it is reproduced, cited or linked here, in aggregate or otherwise, beyond the single sentence in that section, and the raw export is held in the private research directory only.
11. S47US Census, 1900 — Washington Township, ED 404, Alameda County, California; household 278, sheet 14B line 75. FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:M9P7-T13. The single most important document on the Silva line. Frank Sr: age 37, born June 1863, birthplace "Azores Port", arrival 1888, Head, married 13 years — and his own father's and mother's birthplace, both "Azores Port," which is the sixth generation. His wife Annie, 34, "Azores Port"; daughter Mary, 4; son Frank, 3, California. ⚠️ Indexed under the Anglicised spelling "Frank Silver", which is why he was invisible to earlier searches.
12. S48US Census, 1920 — Washington Judicial Township (originally Washington, ED 213), Alameda County; household 132, sheet 8B line 62. FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:MH38-KY1. Frank Silva, 22, married, born California 1898, relationship to head of household: "Son", both parents born Portugal; in the household with "Mildresk" Silva, born 1899 California — an OCR mangling of Mildred. The relationship column is what makes the father–son link a record rather than an inference from a "Jr" on a headstone.
13. S49US Census, 1930 — Washington, ED 349, Alameda County. FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:XCX2-4JJ (Aileen) and 1:1:XCX2-4JF (Frank Sr, Head, age 66). Aileen Silva, age 11, relationship to head: "Granddaughter", father's and mother's birthplace both California — which matches Frank T. Silva and Mildred A. Rose exactly and rules the Azores-born generation out as her parents. Her father had died in December 1924. 🔑 Re-served 22 September 2026 under Anna's hint; the image-level reading and its supplement are at [S147].
14. S50US Census, 1940 — Washington Judicial Township, Niles, ED 1-180, Alameda County. FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:K9Q4-7JC. Frank Silva, age 76, birthplace "Azores", Head, Widowed, residence in 1935 "Same House." The second of two federal enumerations forty years apart that name the archipelago — and, like the first, it names no island. Niles is a few miles from Mission San Jose, which is the "Mission San" birthplace on Aileane's own NUMIDENT.
15. S51California, County Marriages, 1849–1957 — entry for Clifford Ray Parliman and Aileane S Proeger. FamilySearch record ark:/61903/1:2:9MJ4-4SZ5; film image 1:2:3QS7-893H-5WQJ. A government vital record, not a user tree and not NUMIDENT. The index assigns the roles in its own fields: Frank Silva — "Father Of Bride"; Mildard A Rose — mother of the bride; Aileane S Proeger — bride, using the married surname from William Harry Proeger. This is the document that moved Aileane's parents from Probable to Confirmed, and it also records her third marriage, behind the known alias "Aileane Silva Parliman."
16. S52US World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918 — Frank Silva, FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:KZVH-BF9. Birth date 2 December 1897; event place Alameda County, California. His own card gives the birthplace only as "United States" — confirming that he was American-born and that the immigrant generation is his parents'. He died 3 December 1924, one day after his 27th birthday.
17. S53California Death Index, 1905–1939 — Frank T Silva, born 1897, died 3 December 1924, Alameda, ark:/61903/1:1:QKSM-D7JH; and Anna L Silva, born 1868, died 17 December 1938, Alameda, 1:1:QKS9-FLRF. A state death index. Four other Frank Silvas died in the county in the same window; none carries both the middle initial T and the 3 December date. Anna's entry is what makes the 1940 census's "Widowed" line interlock.
18. S54Find a Grave Index — three consecutive ARKs from one cemetery transcription batch at Saint Josephs Cemetery, Fremont / Centerville, Alameda County: Frank Silva (Sr) 1863–1946 1:1:QVVZ-XNZK, Anna L. Silva 1868–1938 1:1:QVVZ-XNZ6, Frank Silva, Jr 1897–1924 1:1:QVVZ-XNZ2. St. Joseph's is the Portuguese Catholic cemetery of the Mission San Jose district. All three are flagged "Photograph Included," which is the cheapest unexplored route to the island. ⚠️ Indexing artefact: FamilySearch's place authority wrongly normalises Frank Jr's Event Place to "Saint Josephs Cemetery, Preemption, Mercer, Illinois"; the Event Place (Original) on the same record reads "Fremont, Alameda, California." There is no Illinois connection.
19. S55US Census, 1900 — Washington Township, ED 405, Alameda County; household 24, sheet 1B line 93. FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:M9PW-6X9. Antone Rose, Head, born February 1840, Portugal, arrival 1870, married 21 years, his own parents both Portugal-born; Louise Rose, Wife, age 44, Portugal (her birth-year column reads 1865, contradicting her own age); Mildred Rose, Daughter, born July 1898, California. The same township as the Silvas, one enumeration district over. ⚠️ These records say "Portugal," not "Azores," and this page does not upgrade them to match the Silvas. "Rose" is the standard Anglicisation of Portuguese Rosa / Roza. 🔑 SUPPLEMENT, 22 September 2026 — the same page re-served (rid 36140745) and read at full resolution. The children are named: Rose (Nov 1879, already married), Louise (June 1885), Antone (June 1887), Joseph (Oct 1888), Frank (May 1891), Edward and Mildred (July 1898), bracketed as twins, and Helen (Oct 1899). ⚠ The mother's age column (44) and birth-year column disagree; the age governs, agreeing with S201, so she was born c.1855–56.
20. S56California Birth Index, 1905–1995 — Aileane Silva, born 15 August 1918, Alameda, California, FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:V256-J8H. The index's single associated surname is the mother's maiden name, and it reads Rose — corroborating Mildred Rose as her mother from a vital-records index rather than from NUMIDENT or a user tree. Its limit, stated: the index does not print the mother's given name, so it establishes the surname Rose, not specifically "Mildred A."
21. S64UPEC Council No. 10 "Amor do Proximo", Mission San Jose — membership register, 1891–1913. União Portuguesa do Estado da California; PDF scan of the LDS microfilm hosted by Azores GenWeb, file mission-san-jose_2-10.pdf (the file is Council No. 10 only, despite its name). Page 21, member No. 66, February 1896: Francisco da Silva, 33, lavrador, [M.S.J.], Paiz Fayal — a struck Portugal beneath; page 22, heir certificate 2223: Anna da Silva. Re-read at 200 dpi on 15 September 2026. The first record of any kind to name an island for this family. Age within a year of Frank Sr's June 1863, a farmer, wife Anna, in the family's township. Probable, not Confirmed: the row carries no birth date, no parish and no parents, and "Francisco da Silva" is a common name in this colony. It is read with S65, not alone.
22. S65IDES Council No. 1, Mission San Jose — membership register, book 2, 1889–1946. Irmandade do Divino Espírito Santo; PDF scan of the LDS microfilm hosted by Azores GenWeb, file ides_council_1_bk2.pdf. Page 21, member No. 178 (admitted 15 November 1896, suspended 3 October 1897): Francisco da Silva, 33, cazado, trabalhador, mission San Jose, Naturalidade Faial. Page 79, member No. 220, 5 April 1914: Frank Silva, 16, [solteiro], [trabalhador], San Jose / Mission, Naturalidade Mission; page 80, heir certificate 16362: Anna L. Silva, Mãi (mother), San Jose / Mission. Re-read at 200 dpi on 15 September 2026. The 1896 row is the same man as S64 in the neighbouring lodge — same name, age, town, marital state and island. The 1914 row is Frank T. Silva Jr: 16 in April 1914 fits 2 December 1897 exactly, he is California-born ("Mission"), and he names Anna L. Silva — the exact form on her death index and headstone — as his mother, in the same book. That pairing is what made Faial a strong inference from these books alone; neither book carries a birth date, so neither settles it. His 1946 obituary [S67] does, and it names these same two lodges — which is also what confirms that these rows are him.
23. S67Frank Silva Sr — obituary, November 1946. Syndicated death notice datelined Mission San Jose, Nov. 28, retrieved 15 September 2026 as two independent OCR captures of the same text on Newspapers.com (Publisher Extra, via Ancestry All Access), image ids 205259611 and 205515816. "Frank Silva, 83, resident of this community for more than 50 years and former farmer and grocer, died at the San Jose Hospital yesterday… interment will be at St. Joseph's Cemetery… He was a native of Fayal, the Azores, and was a member of IDES Lodge No. 1, St. Anthony's Sodality and the UPEC Lodge. He was the husband of the late Anna L. Silva, the foster father of Frank S. Vargas, father of the late Frank Silva Jr. and Mamie Silva and grandfather of Aileen Roberts of Philadelphia." The record that confirmed the island. Not one indexed field: it independently corroborates every axis the lodge registers rested on — age 83 (b. ~1863), Mission San José, both lodges, wife Anna L., son Frank Jr — and adds the granddaughter by her married name. The second capture's OCR reads "Azures" for Azores: a scanning slip, not a variant place. It also overturns the "d. Santa Barbara County" reading this page had taken from the California Death Index; the index is simply incomplete for Alameda County.
24. S68Julius Proeger — Pennsylvania death certificate, 6 January 1924. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, file no. 677, registration district Pittsburgh, Allegheny County; Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906–1972 (Ancestry collection 5164), Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Read on the certificate image 16 September 2026. Date of birth April 15, 1844, age 79, widower, retired; birthplace Germany; maiden name of mother Loesch, her birthplace Germany. The certificate names the mother and not the father — line 11 reads unknown Proeger. The father's given names came from S69, a different record on a different continent. This is also the record whose 15 April 1844 birth date made that match provable rather than plausible.
25. S69Carl Julius Prüger — Lutheran baptism, Kirchberg an der Jagst (Oberamt Gerabronn), Württemberg, 28 April 1844. Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500–1985 (Ancestry collection 61023), retrieved 16 September 2026. Born 15 April 1844, between 11 and 12 noon, baptised 28 April 1844 at Kirchberg an der Jagst, Oberamt Gerabronn, Württemberg — the register writes the place Gerabronn, Kirchberg u. Oa. (today Baden-Württemberg); father Georg Melchior Julius Prüger, Bürger und Schuhmachermeister dahier; mother Elisabeth Catharina geb. Lösch. Entry no. 22, original scan 5759 × 4607 px. The record that ended the "somewhere in Germany" wall on this line, and the origin of the Prüger spelling that was anglicised to Proeger in America. The identification rests on an exact birth-date match with S68, not on the name alone. ⚠ Superseded note, corrected 20 September 2026: this entry previously said the mother's name was lost in the binding fold and that her surname came from S68 alone. That was a limitation of a low-resolution screenshot, not of the record — at full resolution the line is legible, and the Schrift im Falz verdeckt flag on the film refers to a gutter this entry sits clear of. The register names the mother, and it is the best of the three readings of her given name — see S122. The parish is Kirchberg an der Jagst and the Oberamt is Gerabronn: the siblings' entries read Kirchberg (OA. Gerabronn), and Julius gave Kirchberg as his home to the Hamburg clerk in 1865.
26. S81Mary Jane Wright Coffman — Texas death certificate, 6 December 1934. Texas State Department of Health, Standard Certificate of Death, file no. 56943, Taylor County; Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903–1982. Read from the certificate image 16 September 2026. Mary Jane Coffman, wife of D. E. Coffman; born 23 October 1859, Texas; died 6 December 1934 at 7:20 p.m., two miles south of Potosi, Taylor County, of cerebral haemorrhage; buried Dudley, 8 December 1934; father James W. Wright, born Tennessee; mother's maiden name Lucy Brooks, born Tennessee; informant D. C. Coffman of Abilene. It settles a death year and it names two ancestors. Her gravestone and her FindAGrave memorial give the death a day later and a year later, in December 1935 [S21]; the certificate says 6 December 1934 and the family typescript [S72] independently says 1934 as well. A state certificate written five days after the death outranks a stone transcription, and it is followed on this page. The likeliest source of the wrong year is the state registrar's filing stamp, JAN 10 1935, on the face of the same document.
27. S85History of Dallas County, Texas (1892), pp. 687–688 — the biography of James W. Wright, M.D. Two printed pages, read from the images 16 September 2026. Gives his birth near Nashville, Tennessee, 4 February 1825, son of Thomas and Martha A. (Tate) Wright; service in the Mexican War; medical study at Louisville and a degree at Nashville; his marriage 28 October 1848 to Lucy C. Brooks, of Davidson County, Tennessee, daughter of Moses T. and Nancy (Tate) Brooks; the family's emigration to Texas in 1850; and, on p. 688, his children — among them "Mary J., wife of David E. Coffman, of Taylor county." A subscription county history is a paid-for family account, not a vital record, and is weighed that way here. Its value is that it reaches the same couple from the opposite direction to the 1934 death certificate [S81]: the certificate names Mary Jane's parents, the history names Dr. Wright's daughter. Neither was derived from the other. The G6 generation it supplies — Thomas & Martha A. (Tate) Wright, Moses T. & Nancy (Tate) Brooks — rests on this book alone and stays Probable.
28. S88Earl Theodore Roberts and Aileane Proeger — Los Angeles County marriage record, 8 February 1946. California, County Marriages, 1849–1957 (FamilySearch collection 1804002), page 30, digital folder 005698721, microfilm 2115501, image 2924; ARKs 1:1:K8KQ-X2F (groom) and 1:1:K8KQ-X2V (bride). Retrieved 16 September 2026. Both parties aged 27; the groom's parents are named as Leon H Roberts and Bessie H Henderson; the bride is indexed under her first married name, Proeger, with her parents as "Lank" [Frank] Silva and Mildred Ross [Rose]. It does two jobs. It replaces a family tree as the authority for Aileane's third marriage, and it is the only record that names Earl Theodore Roberts's own parents — which is how this page can state that he is no relation to the Anna Blanche Roberts in the generation above. Two unrelated Roberts families sit on this tree. ⚠️ She is indexed in February 1946 as Proeger, not as Parliman, though the Parliman marriage of 31 May 1943 came first [S51] — an oddity of the index, recorded and not explained.
29. S122Georg Melchior Julius Proeger & Elisabethe Sabina Lösch — marriage, Triensbach, Crailsheim, Württemberg, 1835. Germany, Marriages, 1558–1929, FamilySearch ARK 1:1:NZMF-P6V (bride's entry 1:1:NZMF-P6F), read 20 September 2026. Groom born 1804 at Ertenbrechtshausen, single; bride born 1803 at Crailsheim. His parents: Joh. Leonhard David Proeger and Eva Barbara Schmidt. Her parents: Joh. Friedrich Melchior Lösch and Maria Dorothea Wolf. This is the record that names a seventh generation on the Proeger side and a sixth on the Lösch side. It is an index entry, not an image: everything it supplies is Probable until a parish register page is read at Triensbach or Crailsheim. ⚠ Three readings of one woman's given name. This index says Elisabethe Sabina; the 1844 Kirchberg baptism register, written at the time and read at full resolution, says Elisabeth Catharina [S69]; Julius's 1924 Pennsylvania death certificate says Lossetta [S68]. The surname Lösch is identical on all three, and this record takes the contemporaneous register as primary. ⚠ The birthplace is a lead, not a finding. The FamilySearch shared tree says Schwäbisch Hall; both index originals say Erten- or Entenbrechtshausen, two readings of one hand, and Erkenbrechtshausen is a real hamlet 3½ km from the Triensbach church. The place-standardiser separately mangled the baptism entry into "Kirchberg an der Iller, Biberach", 150 km south. Always read the original place field, never the standardised one. ⚠ Corrected 26 September 2026: his 1804 birth register [S591] names his mother as Anna Maria Busch. Eva Barbara Schmid(t) was his stepmother, his father's second wife from 1806, and she raised him.
30. S123Georg Melchior Julius Proeger — birth 1804 and death 1870, Württemberg. Germany, Births and Baptisms, 1558–1898, FamilySearch ARK 1:1:NNGB-R2B: born 25 July 1804, died 4 February 1870; father Joh. Leonhard David Proeger, mother Eva Barbara Schmidt. Corroborated by Germany, Deaths and Burials, 1582–1958, ARK 1:1:J7HM-PXK: died 1870, born 25 July 1804 at "Entenbrechtshausen". Both read 20 September 2026. Two more index entries, agreeing with S122 on the parents and adding the dates Julius's father had never had. Probable: no image read. ⚠ A fourth ARK, 1:1:J7HM-PX2, displays as "Joh. Leonhard David Proeger, Father … Birth: Entenbrechtshausen". Do not cite that as the father's birthplace — it is almost certainly the indexer propagating the principal's birthplace onto the relationship row. Johann Leonhard David Proeger and Eva Barbara Schmidt as people — their own baptisms, their marriage, their dates — remain Not found; their FamilySearch profiles are hollow and carry no source but these. ⚠ Corrected 26 September 2026: his 1804 birth register [S591] names his mother as Anna Maria Busch. Eva Barbara Schmid(t) was his stepmother, his father's second wife from 1806, and she raised him.
31. S124Minnie Margaret Kochendoerfer — christening at Langenburg, and her parents. FamilySearch shared tree, person LHQC-M24, with parents LR9G-7HM (Georg Leonhard Kochendorfer, 1811 – 1 October 1859, died Langenburg) and LR9G-WGN (Eva Margaretha Renk, b. 1809), married 29 November 1837, Gerabronn, with six further children. Her christening: 21 November 1847, Langenburg, Oberamt Gerabronn, Württemberg. Read via the published tree-data service on 20 September 2026; read-only — nothing was edited, merged or attached. User-contributed tree data, and graded as such: Probable. No Langenburg parish page has been read here. Its value is the parish: Langenburg is 8 km from Kirchberg an der Jagst, where her husband was baptised [S69], both inside the Oberamt Gerabronn. Two families out of one small district marrying in Pittsburgh is chain migration, and it redirects the search for her crossing, still Not found, from the Hamburg passenger lists to the Württemberg registers. ⚠ The tree gives her birth year as 1847, and the 1900 census [S137] and her 1912 death certificate now agree with it — so 1847 is the settled year and the cemetery record's 1848 [S19] is the outlier. The christening date is itself part of the proof: a baptism on 21 November 1847 cannot follow a birth in November 1848, but sits eighteen days after 3 November 1847. ⚠ The same profile carries an unsourced 1855 immigration for Julius alongside 1865; the Hamburg port register settles it at October 1865.
32. S125William Harry Proeger and Aileen Marie Silva — Wasatch County, Utah marriage, 13 August 1940. Utah, County Marriages, 1871–1941, Wasatch County, Marriage License Record E, page 203, certificate no. 2915. Register image 4000 × 3238 px, read 20 September 2026. Both parties present: groom age 25, bride age 21; licensed, married and filed same day by Alfred Sharp, County Clerk and LDS Elder. Witnesses Bert M. Lindsay and Marjorie Duke — neither related to either family. Both gave residence as "Rockford, Madison County, Illinois" (no Rockford exists in Madison County; the clerk struck the printed "Utah" and wrote Illinois — the address was internally inconsistent, recorded and not corrected). Register image held at familytree-docs/proeger/proeger-silva-marriage-certificate-1940.jpg. The document behind the weakest "Confirmed" in the corpus. Previously sourced to a FamilySearch tree event (S12) with no government record. This county vital record — with both their signatures — replaces it. ⚠ Heber City is on the US-40 transcontinental corridor; Earl reports the couple was traveling from Ohio to California and stopped to marry, which fits the route. The residence anomaly (Illinois, not Ohio or California) is what they told the clerk and is not smoothed over. Two months later William Harry registered for the draft in North Hollywood.
33. S136Anna "Annie" L. Silva — California Death Index, 1905–1939, page 6332. California, U.S., Death Index, 1905–1939 (Ancestry collection 5187, record 1035937), image 41547_B138961-00159, index pages 6331–6332. Read from the page image at full resolution, 1520 × 1484 px, 21 September 2026. Her line reads SILVA · ANNA · L · age 70 · 12 17 38 · 71446 — middle initial L, age 70, died 17 December 1938, state file number 71446. ⚠ The file number is the new fact here, and it is a lead rather than a finding. Ancestry's transcription of this record does not surface it; the printed page does. 71446 is the handle for ordering the actual California death certificate — the document that would carry her parents' names and her birthplace, and therefore the only record in view that could settle whether the Escobar connection reaches her directly. The index itself cannot. It is a printed state list — surname, given name, initial, age, county code, date, file number — and it carries no maiden name. Her maiden name therefore remains Not found on this evidence. Nothing here touches her registered baptismal name, Anna Luísa do Coração de Jesus, or the fact that Escobar belongs to her father Thomás Pereira d'Escobar, one generation up. ⚠ Eleven Anna Silvas appear on this page alone, so the line was identified by reading the image, not by trusting the index pointer. Name, age and death date all agree with what this record already held: this source confirms and overturns nothing. ⚠ A note for future runs: 1520 × 1484 is this frame's native size, not a cap. An earlier pass called the page "illegible"; that was the 600 px thumbnail tier, not the image.
34. S1411900 U.S. Federal Census — the Frank Silva household, Washington Township, Alameda County, California. Ancestry collection 7602, records 36140336 and 36140335 — one sheet, two hints, one pull — image 4118417_00621. Enumeration District 404, sheet 14 B, dwelling 275, family 278, enumerated 15 June 1900 by Antone Dutre. Read from the image at full resolution — 3700 × 3708 px, 21 September 2026; read-only, nothing accepted, attached or edited. Lines 73–78: Frank Silva, head, 1863, age 36, married 13 years, Farmer, alien, born the Azores of Azorean parents, immigrated 1888, 12 years in the United States; Annie, wife, Jan 1866, age 33, immigrated 1895, 5 years in the United States, 2 children born, 2 living; Mary, daughter, Aug 1896, California; Frank, son, Dec 1898, California; Joe, partner, Mar 1863, arrived 1885; and Antonio S. Escobar, laborer, Dec 1869 the Azores, arrived 1895. The eight-year arrival gap is confirmed on the page and given a shape. His 1888 and her 1895 are both written in the immigration column, and beside them the sheet records married 13 years — about 1887, a year before he emigrated. The reading the image supports is a marriage in the islands, his passage alone in 1888, hers seven years later, and the first child born in California in August 1896. ⚠ That is a reading, not a settled fact: no document here states a marriage place or a separation, and years-married columns are soft. ⚠ Her birth year is not settled by this sheet, and the age column leans against the record. The image reads Jan 1866, but age 33 at the 15 June 1900 date is right for January 1867 and would be 34 for 1866. The sheet contradicts itself by a year and cannot decide between the record's 1866 and the tree's about-1867; her year stays open. Also new: Antonio S. Escobar is in the household and arrived in the same year she did. Escobar is the surname of her father, Thomás Pereira d'Escobar, one generation up; a brother travelling with her is the obvious reading, but the sheet states no relationship — he is entered as Laborer. Not confirmed. The month in Frank's date-of-birth cell is not legible with confidence; the year 1863 and the age 36 are clear and agree. Ancestry indexes the household as "Silver"; the page reads Silva — a transcription artefact, not a name variant.
35. S1461910 U.S. Federal Census — the Frank Silva household, Washington Township, Alameda County, California. Ancestry collection 7884, records 939010 and 181169056 — one sheet, two hints, one pull — image 31111_4327262-00314. Supervisor's District 3, Enumeration District 158, sheet 4 B, dwelling 86, family 91, Vallejo Street, enumerated 19 April 1910. Read from the image at full resolution — 4042 × 2746 px, 48/48 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. Lines 93–95: Frank Silva, head, age 45, married once, 23 years, Foreman, wine cellar, born Portugal of Portuguese parents, immigrated 1887, mother tongue Portuguese; Annie, wife, age 42, married once, 23 years, 4 children born, 1 living, born Portugal of Portuguese parents, immigrated 1887, mother tongue English; and Frank, son, age 12, single, born California of Portuguese parents. The home is recorded owned, free of mortgage, a house. This sheet settles the household and opens three questions. Father and son are on one document, in one household — Frank Jr is entered as Son, born in California of two Portuguese parents. The two men of the same name are no longer told apart only by the tree's own edges; a census page now does it. His age 12 in April 1910 is consistent with the 2 December 1897 the tree carries, but ⚠ the sheet gives no day and no month and does not independently date his birth. Married 23 years — about 1887 — agrees with the 1900 sheet's thirteen years [S141] and with the 1886 Santa Bárbara, Horta marriage record. ⚠ The arrival year is now four witnesses and four answers, and it is further from settled than before. The 1900 sheet wrote 1888 for him and 1895 for her; this sheet writes 1887 for both; the 1930 sheet, read off the image, writes 1891 for him and 1899 for her [S147]. The disagreement about her is eleven years wide. No date on this site may harden out of these four — only a passenger manifest or a naturalisation paper can close it. ⚠ The naturalisation cell is overwritten and blotted. A superscript that reads as "Na" sits on the rule between lines 92 and 93 and cannot be assigned to either row with confidence, so this page does not say whether he was naturalised by 1910. The 1900 sheet had recorded him alien after twelve years, and the California Voter Register hint that looked like the answer belongs to a different man — that Frank Silva was naturalised in San Francisco in 1874, when ours was eleven and still in the Azores. ⚠ The age column disagrees with the gravestone by about a year. Age 45 at the 19 April 1910 enumeration puts the birth between April 1864 and April 1865, where the tree and the stone carry June 1863. This is recorded as a discrepancy, not a correction: an age column is the enumerator's arithmetic and not a witness to a birth, and the 1862 Santa Bárbara, Faial baptism already held on file outranks it. ⚠ An earlier version of this entry said the 1930 and 1940 returns made it three censuses pointing at 1864. That was our arithmetic, not the record's, and it is withdrawn. The 1930 sheet was enumerated on 7 April 1930 and gives his age as 66, which means a birth between 8 April 1863 and 7 April 1864 — June 1863 falls inside that window, so 1930 supports the gravestone rather than contradicting it [S147]. This 1910 page remains the one age column that genuinely points later. None of it settles the birth year: the 1862 Faial baptism outranks every age column, and 1862 is not 1863 either. ⚠ The hardest new fact on the page is a count, not a name: Annie bore four children and only one was living in April 1910. In 1900 she had two born, two living — Mary, b. August 1896, and Frank. By 1910 only Frank Jr survives. Mary and two further children, unnamed on any sheet held here, died between 1900 and 1910. No names, no dates and no places are on this document, and none are supplied. His occupation has moved from Farmer in 1900 to Foreman in a wine cellar, as a wage earner. As in 1900, Ancestry indexes the household as "Silver"; the page reads Silva — a transcription artefact, not a name variant. 🔑 SUPPLEMENT, 22 September 2026 — re-read under Anna's hint, and three things on the sheet had never been adjudicated. Her own columns read four children born, one living — three children of Frank and Anna Silva died before April 1910 and are named nowhere in this research. Anna could speak English in 1910 and Frank could not: the column asks whether able to speak English, or, if not, give language spoken; her cell reads English, his Portuguese. Ancestry files hers as Native Tongue: English, inverting the column. Frank's occupation reads Foreman, Wine Cellar, wage earner. Both arrivals read 1887 and M1, 23 years puts the marriage at c.1887; the index carries only Anna's year, which is why the conflict with 1930 [S147] never showed in the queue.
36. S1471930 U.S. Federal Census — the Frank Silva household, Washington Township, Mission Precinct, Alameda County, California. Ancestry collection 6224, record 88915983, image 4532332_00361. Supervisor's District 8, Enumeration District 1-349, sheet 2 B, dwelling 43, family 43, enumerated 7 April 1930 by an enumerator signing as "Iny W. Cull" — ⚠ the given name is not confidently legible and is not asserted. Read from the image at full resolution — 3932 × 2844 px, 48/48 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. Lines 78–80: Frank Silva, head, age 66, 24 at first marriage, born Portugal, immigration 1891, naturalisation Na, occupation beginning "Farm"; Anna, wife, age 61, 19 at first marriage, born Portugal, immigration 1899, naturalisation Na; and Aileen, grand daughter, age 11, born California of California-born parents. The home is owned, valued $1,000, with no radio set. Both adults are recorded able to read, write and speak English, mother tongue Portuguese. 🔑 This sheet answers the naturalisation question the 1910 page could not. Column 23 reads Na — naturalised — for both Frank and Anna, in a clean, unblotted cell. That is not a guess at a smudge: the capital was checked against control glyphs in the same hand on the same rows — the enumerator's capital N in "No" (col. 16) is a flat-topped crossbarred loop and matches the cell exactly, while his capital P in "Portugal" (col. 18) is a tall open ascender with a closed bowl and does not resemble it. The 1910 sheet's blotted, unassignable superscript [S146] is now corroborated from an independent document. 🔴 The consequence is a document we do not yet hold: a naturalisation file exists. He was naturalised in California somewhere between the 1900 return, which recorded him alien after twelve years, and this one. A naturalisation packet carries an arrival date and very often the vessel, and is now the single highest-value unpulled record for this family. 🔑 Age 66 is consistent with June 1863 and does not point at 1864. Ancestry indexes this record abt 1864 by subtracting 66 from 1930, but enumeration was 7 April, so age 66 means a birth between 8 April 1863 and 7 April 1864 — and the June 1863 on the gravestone falls inside that window. ⚠ The earlier framing on this site that "three censuses agree on about 1864" was an artefact of index arithmetic and has been withdrawn [S146]. It does not settle the birth year in the other direction either: the 1862 Santa Bárbara, Faial baptism outranks every age column, and 1862 is not 1863. 🆕 Ages at first marriage — 24 and 19 — put the marriage at about 1887–1888 from each side independently, agreeing with the 12 June 1886 Santa Bárbara, Horta record and with 1910's married 23 years. 🆕 Aileane Marie Silva is in this household at age 11, entered as grand daughter — her grandparents were raising her after Frank Jr died in 1924. This is the first document placing her in that house. ⚠ The sheet gives only an age, which brackets her birth to 8 April 1918 × 7 April 1919; it gives no day and no month. 🔴 And the arrival year got worse for the second sheet running: four witnesses, four answers. 1900 → him 1888, her 1895; 1910 → 1887 for both; this sheet → him 1891, her 1899. The spread on her is now eleven years. ⚠ Both 1930 immigration cells are over-inked — the second digit of each has filled in — and 1891/1899 are read at DeepZoom level 12 against the clean 1877 and 1907 entries elsewhere on the same page as controls; Ancestry's index also reads 1891. No date on this site may harden into a settled arrival year. Another census cannot close this; a manifest or the naturalisation file can. ⚠ Frank Silva Jr is absent, as expected — he died in 1924, which is what makes this sheet Frank Sr by definition rather than by inference. 🔑 SUPPLEMENT, 22 September 2026 — the sheet contradicts itself, and that is why it cannot simply be preferred. Frank 1891, Anna 1899 in the immigration column, eight years apart on consecutive lines — and on the same lines age at first marriage 24 against 66, and 19 against 61, which both put the marriage at c.1888, before either arrival. Either the arrival years are wrong, or the couple married in the Azores and emigrated separately, husband first — a reading this sheet raises and cannot settle. Open question; review queue. A passenger list or the naturalisation petitions (both are marked Na) would close it.
37. S148World War I draft registration card — Frank Silva Jr., 12 September 1918, Mission San Jose, Alameda County, California. Ancestry collection 6482, record 29586428, image 005240885_02265. Local Board for Division No. 2, County of Alameda, Hayward, California; serial 939, order A 2696; the third and final WWI registration. Read from the image at full resolution — 3048 × 1464 px, 18/18 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026; the image carries both sides side by side, the Registration Card and the Registrar's Report. 🔑 A full birth date for Frank Jr in his own hand: "4. Date of birth: Dec. 2, 1897", on a form he signed beneath the printed affirmation "I affirm that I have verified above answers and that they are true." Everything else this site holds for that date is an index or a gravestone. ⚠ It is a SELF-REPORTED date on a form the subject signed, not a birth register — evidence of a different kind from a baptism or a civil birth entry, and it is not written up as though it were one. ⚠ The arithmetic on the card agrees with itself, which is the reason to trust it as far as it goes: age 20 at 12 September 1918 brackets the birth to 13 September 1897 × 12 September 1898, and 2 December 1897 sits inside that window. 🔑 Box 10, NATIVE BORN, is ticked; boxes 11 (Naturalized) and 12 (Citizen by Father's Naturalization Before Registrant's Majority) are empty, as are both alien boxes. Frank Jr was a citizen by birth — independent of, and consistent with, the Na recorded against his parents in 1930 [S147]. 🆕 The first document in which Frank Jr himself names Mildred. Questions 19/20, nearest relative: "Wife Mildred Silva", at his own address. That dates the marriage to before 12 September 1918, consistent with Aileane's 1918 birth. 🆕 First occupation and employer on any document for him: Laborer, Ritchie Bros Co., Mission San Jose. 🆕 Physical description: medium height, medium build, gray eyes, brown hair, no disqualifying injury. His permanent home address is Mission San Jose — the family's township in 1900, 1910 and 1930, with no gap. ⚠ The card gives no birthplace. The revised Form No. 1 records citizenship status but not the town or state of birth, so Native Born fixes the country and nothing finer; California comes from the 1920 and 1930 censuses, not from here. ⚠ Frank Sr appears nowhere on the document — the father/son link is not evidenced by this card and continues to rest on the census sheets already cited. ⚠ The serial is read as 939 with a soft final digit, and the registrar's signature was not confidently legible and is not transcribed.
38. S1491940 U.S. Federal Census — Frank Silva, Mission San Jose, Washington Township, Alameda County, California. Ancestry collection 2442, record 68940180, image m-t0627-00191-00688 (NARA T627, roll 191). Supervisor's District 6, Enumeration District 1-180, Sheet 20-B, line 59, household 481, enumerated 1 May 1940 by an enumerator signing as "Joseph Fonte". Read from the image at full resolution — 7162 × 5402 px, 154/154 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. Silva, Frank, Head, M, W, age 76, Wd — widowed, attended school no, highest grade completed 3, birthplace Azores, citizenship Na, residence on 1 April 1935: Same house; at work in the week of 24–30 March 1940, 48 hours; occupation Owner, industry Grocery Store; 52 weeks worked in 1939, no wages, and other income of $50 or more: yes. Home owned, valued $1,000, not a farm. 🔑 He owned and ran a grocery store. Owner / Grocery Store, 52 weeks in 1939, 48 hours in the census week, no wage line but other income of $50 or more — the exact signature of a self-employed proprietor. In 1930 he was a farmer [S147], so this is a documented change of trade between 1930 and 1940, at the age of 76, and it is the first document to give him a business of his own. His 1946 obituary calls him "a former farmer and grocer" [S67]; this sheet is the record behind the second half of that phrase. 🔑 Widowed. Column 13 reads Wd. Anna L. Silva had died before 1 April 1940 — the tree carries 17 December 1938 — and this is the first census in which he appears without her. 🔑 Residence on 1 April 1935: Same house. It is the one question no other census asks, and it puts him in this Mission San Jose house continuously from at least 1935 to 1940. With the 1900, 1910 and 1930 sheets and his son's 1918 draft card [S148], the family's documented centre of gravity is Washington Township, Alameda County, without a gap. 🔑 Naturalised, a third time. Column 17 reads Na, agreeing with 1930 and with the blotted 1910 entry [S146]. ⚠ He is enumerated ALONE. Household 481 holds one person; line 60 opens a new household. No parents, no spouse and no children appear on the line, so this document evidences no relationship at all — every family link on his card continues to rest on the sources already cited there. He is, however, his own informant: the enumerator's circled informant mark sits beside his name, so the answers on this line are Frank Silva's own. ⚠ The sheet gives an AGE, not a date, and it does not decide 1863 against 1864. Age 76 at census day 1 April 1940 brackets the birth to 2 April 1863 × 1 April 1864. June 1863 falls inside that window — and so does part of 1864. It is consistent with the gravestone and is not an independent witness for either year. Ancestry indexes it abt 1864 by subtracting 76 from 1940, which ignores the census day, exactly as it did on the 1930 sheet. ⚠ The withdrawn framing is not restored. The claim that three censuses agreed on about 1864 was our own arithmetic and was withdrawn [S146]; this sheet does not bring it back. ⚠ Birthplace reads only "Azores" — an archipelago, not a parish. The 1862 Santa Bárbara, Faial baptism already on file is finer than anything this column can give. ⚠ The place on the sheet is Mission San Jose, not Niles. The FamilySearch index of this same enumeration district labels it Niles [S50]; the printed header of the sheet itself gives the township as Washington and the unincorporated place as Mission San Jose. Both are in Washington Township and a few miles apart; where they differ, the sheet is preferred over the index, and the earlier "at Niles" reading on this site is corrected. ⚠ Line 58, immediately above him, is struck through and annotated "Omitted By Error" — a voided line, not a lost household. ⚠ The street-name column is a vertical entry running above his line and was not read confidently for line 59; his house-number cell is blank. ⚠ The enumerator's surname is read as Fonte with less confidence than the given name, and the education cell is read as the third grade from a single digit with no further qualifier. Nothing on the page depends on either.
39. S1501920 U.S. Federal Census — Frank Silva household, Mission San Jose Town, Washington Township, Alameda County, California. Ancestry collection 6061, record 3289996, image 4293692-00489. Supervisor's District 5, Enumeration District 213, Sheet 8-B, lines 59–63, dwelling 131, family 132, enumerated 17 January 1920 against a census reference date of 1 January 1920. Read from the image at full resolution — 4000 × 2896 px, 48/48 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. 🔑 The whole household stands in one frame: Silva, Frank, Head, M, W, 64, married, immigrated 1895, Na 1904, born Portugal, Farmer, general farm; Anna, Wife, 62, immigrated 1895, Na 1904, Portugal; Frank, Son, 22, married, born California, Laborer, general work; Mildred, Daughter-in-law, 21, married, born California; and Vargas, Frank, Boarder, 7. Tenure O F — owned, free of mortgage — with the farm-schedule mark in the left margin. 🔑 This is the first and only document that places Frank Jr and Mildred under his parents’ roof, and it is the sheet behind the "Mildresk" index entry carried on her card — now read rather than indexed. 🔑 It is also the first document anywhere on this record to DATE the naturalisation. Every other sheet writes only Na; this one writes 1904 for both of them, and 1895 as the year of immigration. ⚠ A naturalisation year on a census is a pointer, not a certificate — it points at an Alameda County or federal naturalisation file of about 1904, which has not been found. 🔑 Frank Sr was a farmer here and a grocer in 1940 [S149]; the change of trade is now documented at both ends rather than inferred. ⚠ WHAT THIS SHEET GETS WRONG, STATED PLAINLY: the two parents’ ages are overstated by eight to ten years. Frank Sr is entered as 64; June 1863 makes him 56. Anna is entered as 62; 1867 makes her 52. These cells are rejected here, and the reason is on the same five lines: the two young adults are exact. Frank Jr at 22 is right for 2 December 1897 on 1 January 1920, and Mildred at 21 is right for July 1898. The enumerator was not systematically careless — the error is confined to the two people whose ages an informant would have been guessing. The 1910, 1930 and 1940 sheets all agree with June 1863 once their reference dates are applied [S146][S147][S149]. The 64 is recorded on this page and rejected on this page. ⚠ Aileane Marie Silva, born August 1918, is NOT on this sheet. She should be about sixteen months old. The household runs Head, Wife, Son, Daughter-in-law, Boarder and stops. This record does not explain her absence and no explanation is invented for her here. ⚠ The 1920 census records ages only — no months, no days. ⚠ "Portugal" is the whole birthplace on this sheet; Azores and Fayal come from other documents [S67]. ⚠ The enumerator’s signature is read as Anna A. Solon with low confidence, and the boarder’s age is a single glyph read as 7. ⚠ The boarder is entered as Boarder, not as kin; no relationship to this family is claimed for him. 🔑 SUPPLEMENT, 22 September 2026 — re-served under Anna's hint (rid 3289995) and re-read at full resolution. The street is Vallejo Street, written in the street column; the farm-schedule number is 79, a line on the 1920 agricultural schedule for E.D. 213 not yet sought; Frank Sr answers Yes to speaking English in 1920, where in 1910 he did not [S146]; Mildred's father and mother are both born in Portugal on her own line. ⚠ Anna's age reads 62 on the image, not the index's 52; the rejection of this sheet's ages stands. ⚠ The arrival year here is 1895 for both — a fourth answer; no arrival year is published as settled.
40. S151Harlan County, Kentucky marriage register — Salomon A. Brock and Matildia Howard, 6 March 1865. Ancestry collection 61372 (Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783–1965), record 902259827, image TH-1971-28951-10144-30, register opening pp. 98–99. Read from the image at full resolution — 4320 × 3837 px, 72/72 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. Their line, verbatim: "Salomon A Brock — Matildia Howard", by whom married left as ditto marks, "march 6 1865", then John C. Howard, Lenard Farmer, J. W. Foster. 🔑 The marriage is on a register for the first time. Until now this site carried only the 1900 census's bare "married 35 years" [S138]. 🔑 And her maiden surname is documentary: the clerk writes Matildia Howard, where before Howard came off a member-submitted photograph's filename. 🔴 STRUCTURAL FINDING — the form is a SCHOOL-CENSUS SHEET REPURPOSED AS A MARRIAGE REGISTER, and the column semantics are genuinely uncertain. The printed headings (CENSUS REPORT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN, Signature of Parents Guardians or Heads of Families, Post Office Address of Parent, Guardian, Etc.) are struck through in ink and overwritten by hand as MARRIAGE REGISTER · PARTIES NAMES · BY WHOME MARRIED · Date · PLACE OF MARRIAGE · NAME O WITTNESS · PRESENT. The two schemes do not line up, so the cell holding John C. Howard reads either as place of marriage, given as a householder's name, or as the printed parent or guardian column. Preferred reading: PLACE OF MARRIAGE — it is the only one consistent across neighbouring rows, which put the bride's own surname in that cell both times (Sarah Hulton above; Littleton Marcum below, for Silas J. Howard — Emily Marcum). ⚠ The rejected reading is the valuable one, which is exactly why it is hedged and not asserted: it would make John C. Howard her FATHER. A portrait of a John C. Howard is already published here off a member tree. This page does not settle it. ⚠ CRITICAL NEGATIVE: this register has no age column, no birthplace column and no parentage column, so it cannot touch the 1847-versus-1848 question. The Owsley County register [S143] has those columns; Kentucky county registers of this period are not uniform. ⚠ The officiant is not recoverable — her by whom married cell is ditto marks and the run is long. 🔑 SUPPLEMENT, 22 September 2026 — the register re-read across BOTH leaves, and the right leaf carries everything. Ancestry indexes only the left leaf. The right leaf's PLACE OF MARRIAGE column reads "John C. Howard" for this couple — and the column names the bride's father's household on every row checked above and below (Sarah Helton above; Littleton Marcum below, for Silas J. Howard — Emily Marcum). This is a SECOND INDEPENDENT CHAIN to John C. Howard as Matilda's father, alongside the 1860 Harlan household [S165] — and the death certificate of the couple's eldest daughter names her mother's maiden name as Matilda Howard [S170]. 🔑 John C. Howard was a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, officiating at other marriages in this same register. 🔑 New from the right leaf: witness Lenard Farmer, and J. W. Forster in the third column. ⚠ Two chains are still not a statement of parentage. No document read says Matilda was John C. Howard's daughter in words; the sheet PRECEDING image 4230650_00446 carries the head of dwelling 822 and has not been pulled. The row stays open in the review queue.
41. S152U.S. Civil War pension index card — Solomon A. Brock, invalid 1872; Matilda P. Brock, widow 1904. Ancestry collection 4654 (U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861–1934), record 11728726, image 32959_032717-04066. Read from the image at full resolution — 2067 × 1366 px, 15/15 DeepZoom tiles, 21 September 2026. Printed card, form 3-H-3: NAME OF SOLDIER Brock, Solomon A.; DEPENDENT — Widow Brock, Matilda P., Minor blank; SERVICE Co. 3 Ky. Inf. and Co. 7 Ky. Inf., and 156 Co. 2d Battn. V.R.C.; 1872, Nov. 2 — Invalid, application 179,175, certificate 248,266; 1904, May 23 — Widow, application 807,122, certificate 585,190, filed from Texas. 🔑 It dates his death to on or before 23 May 1904. A widow's application is filed after the soldier dies, and hers was filed from Texas — where the 1900 census [S138] already had the household, in Callahan County. The 1910 sheet then enumerates her as a widow in her own right [S154]. 🔑 Her middle initial is P on a federal form compiled from her own application. The headstone published here reads "MATHILDA R. BROCK": two custodians disagree, and this card is the better witness. The stone's R is now the outlier, and it is left standing rather than corrected away. 🔑 Military service is entirely new to this family's record — two Kentucky infantry companies plus the Veteran Reserve Corps, i.e. reassignment to garrison duty, which usually followed wounds or illness — and an invalid pension he drew himself from 2 November 1872, at about 34. ⚠ No birth, marriage or death DATES appear anywhere on the card. It gives a ceiling, not a date, and does not touch 1847-versus-1848. ⚠ It is an INDEX, not the file. The widow's application 807,122 / certificate 585,190 at NARA would carry the marriage proof and his actual date of death. It has not been ordered, and it is the best next lead on this couple.
42. S172The last will and testament of Peter H. Martin — Sumner County, Tennessee, written in his own hand 30 June 1849, proved August Term 1849. Tennessee, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1779–2008; Sumner County Will Books 1789–1904; Ancestry record 3819223, image 004776071_00479. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. "I Peter H. Martin of the County of Sumner and State of Tennessee, being in my usual health and of sound and disposing mind, do make and ordain this my last will and Testament." To his wife Jane Martin, for life: the home plantation, the timbered tract bought of William Walton, the horses Charley and Rhoda and choice of three more, eight cattle, the farm gear, a year's provisions, the household furniture, twenty stock hogs, and "Choice of my Servants to the Number of three." The residue "to be sold at public sale for the benefit of my children." "My Town property to be Sold at a Credit for the benefit of my Children. Robert B. Martin has had an advance of three hundred & seventy dollars for which he will account to the other children in the division of my estate … The Shoe Store may be sold to the Crutchers & R. B. Martin and the latter allowed to retain the use of the Capital I put in." "To David B. Martin I give … a dark bay filly four years old. To Joseph D Martin I give unto a light bay filly now two years old." "To Mr. Wm Bell I leave a house and a support with his Sister as long as he Shall choose to accept it." "Witness that I have written with my own hand this 30th day of June 1849 … P. H. Martin (Seal)." Witnesses Thomas Crutcher, J. B. Wilson, W. H. Crutcher; proved in open court, Sumner County Court, August Term 1849, on the oaths of Thomas Crutcher and Wm H Crutcher; recorded by Wm S. Munday, Clerk. 🔑 This is the document the line page named as the one that would close the Joseph question [S107] — and it had never been read. 🔑 Joseph D Martin is named by his father, inside the passage disposing of the estate for the benefit of my children, in the same breath as David B. Martin and immediately after Robert B. Martin is told to account to the other children in the division of my estate. Three named Martins stand inside the class "my children" in the testator's own instrument. ⚠ The caveat travels with it: the will never writes the word son beside any of the three names. The filiation is carried by the structure of the bequest, not by a kinship term. It is far stronger than the two census households the link rested on [S98] [S161], and it is still not the word. 🔑 William Bell was Jane's BROTHER — with his Sister, in Peter's hand. S98's open brother or uncle is answered, and it explains why he was living in her house in 1850: her husband provided for it. 🔑 Peter Hines Martin kept a SHOE STORE, with capital still in it in 1849 and partners in the Crutchers, and held town property apart from the plantation. Read with Persons engaged in Manufactures: 4 at Gallatin in 1820 [S163], it is one trade across thirty years — and David, 19, "Clerk" in 1850 [S98] was clerking in his father's store. 🔑 Holographic, and four days before his death — written 30 June 1849, and his grave gives 4 July 1849 [S105]. 🔑 Nine people in an instrument Ancestry indexes under one name: Jane Martin, Robert B., David B. and Joseph D Martin, Wm Bell, William Walton, and three witnesses. ⚠ Ancestry's Probate Date 30 Jun 1849 is the date the will was written and sealed; probate is the August Term. ⚠ The will bequeaths Servants by choice of three; it names none of them.
43. S184Langenburg (Württemberg) baptismal register, 1847, entry 30. Ancestry record 14762676. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Baptised "Sibÿlla Mina", born 3 November 1847 between 10 and 11 at night, baptised 21 November. Father Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer, Bürger in Gerabronn, cooper (Küfer) in Langenburg; mother Eva Margaretha geb. Renk. 🔑 Minnie's parents on an original register. The next fetch is the Langenburg Familienregister (1834 volume), f. 279. The status of [S124] is not changed here.
44. S205Handwritten "cousins list" by Eileen (Aileane) Roberts, c. 1996. A single sheet in her hand listing her four children (Nancy, Patricia, Bill, Kathie) with each child's children and their ages, closing "I thought you might like to know how many cousins you have." Written for Tasha Proeger, Earl's sister; the closing line is addressed to her. Tasha sent it to Earl, and it was published on 22 September 2026 (documents/silva/eileen-roberts-cousins-list-c1996). Undated. c. 1996 is derived from Bill's age (55) and Earl's (29). Birth years derived from its ages are marked as derived. Tessa (11), India (13) and Teal (27) confirmed by Earl Proeger, 23 Sep 2026. Derek (12), Rex (11) and Elain (35, spelled without a final E) confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026. J J (2) is John Jacob “Jacob” Proeger, Earl’s half-brother and Bill’s son, confirmed by Earl Proeger, 22 Sep 2026. His birth year, 1994, is Earl’s eyewitness testimony [S24], so for him the age is not a derived year. It records Nancy as deceased by c. 1996, which the Oregon Death Index confirms: she died 9 January 1973 [S298].
45. S208Tennessee death certificate, Sumner County, Reg. No. 41 — Mrs Nannie C. Martin, 14 April 1915. Ancestry record 320718. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Mrs Nannie C. Martin, widow, born 26 January 1844, died 14 April 1915, 10th Civil District, three miles east of Gallatin; father D. Chenault (Ky.); mother "Lizzie Eastberry" (Ky.); buried Gallatin Cemetery 16 April; informant J. [R.?] Martin. 🔑 A primary record of Nannie's birth and death. ⚠ The mother's surname is hard to read. Nannie's card now carries these dates, 26 January 1844 – 14 April 1915, replacing a user-tree estimate a decade too late.
46. S275Oregon, U.S., State Marriages, 1906-1971 — Nancy Aileen Proeger and Robert George Belcourt. Ancestry record 1350125980. Read from the image at full resolution, 22 September 2026. Oregon Record of Marriage, Clatsop Co. file 3591 (state file 8614): Robert George Belcourt, U.S. Army, and Nancy Aileen Proeger, born Niles, California, 6 April 1937, daughter of William Proeger and Aileen DeSilva, married at Astoria, 9 October 1955.
47. S298Oregon Death Index, 1898–2008: Nancy Ail Wortman, died 9 January 1973, Wallowa County, Oregon, aged 35, born April 1937; certificate 73-01723. Oregon State Library, State of Oregon Death Index 1971–1980 (Ancestry collection 5254, record 610109). Corroborated by the U.S. Social Security Death Index (Ancestry collection 3693, record 68905787): Nancy Wortman, born 6 April 1937, card issued in Oregon 1953–54, died January 1973. The 6 April 1937 birth matches her 1955 Oregon marriage record [S275] exactly. Read 23 September 2026 (documents/proeger/1973-oregon-death-index-nancy-wortman). Index entries only; the certificate itself has not been retrieved. Replaces an erroneous 20 Feb 2025 date that had been attached to her.
48. S316California Death Index, 1940–1997 — Mildred A Springer. FamilySearch record VPWY-81H, read 23 September 2026. Born 26 July 1898, California; died 7 October 1960, Alameda County; mother's maiden name Mendonca. An index; the certificate has not been seen. The birth date matches the July 1898 twins entry of the 1900 census (S55) and the mother's maiden name matches Louise Rose's, so this is Mildred A. Rose under a later married surname. FamilySearch also attaches this row, wrongly, to her mother as a death record.
49. S323FamilySearch Memory 9943586 — three-generation photograph. Original upload, 1044 × 1572 px, uploaded 7 September 2014; downloaded 23 September 2026. Uploader's comment, 28 November 2016: “Mildred Rose/Silva on the left, Aileane Silva/Proeger on the right, Nancy Proeger in front. Three generations my mom, grandmother and great grandmother.” Undated. The identifications are the uploader's, Mildred's great-granddaughter.
50. S343“Woman Takes Own Life At Wallowa Lake — Rifle Shot In Parked Car Claims Nancy Wortman.” Wallowa County Chieftain (Enterprise, Oregon), Thursday 11 January 1973, page 1. Page image shared on Ancestry by cduarte192 (media 204294cd), 872 × 924 px; read by eye 24 September 2026 (documents/proeger/1973-01-11-wallowa-county-chieftain-nancy-wortman). Confirmed Nancy Belcourt Wortman of Enterprise, 35, died on Tuesday [9 January 1973], apparently by her own hand with a rifle, in a pickup parked near the boat ramp at the foot of Wallowa Lake; found about 8:30 p.m. after a day-long search. Employed at the Wallowa County Nursing Home; twice divorced; survived by two daughters living at Fort Huachuca, Arizona with their father, Robert Belcourt, and a son and a daughter who had lived with her in Enterprise. Date, county and age agree with the Oregon Death Index [S298], and Robert Belcourt is her 1955 husband [S275]. A contemporary newspaper report, not the death certificate, which has not been retrieved. Published at Earl’s instruction, 24 September 2026.
51. S444Württemberg, Germany, Lutheran Parish Registers — Gerabronn, marriages 1837, no. 5: Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer and Eva Margaretha Renk, 29 November 1837. Ancestry record 914646708. Image examined, read 25 September 2026. Confirmed Georg Leonhard Kochendörfer, master cooper (Büttnermeister), born at Gerabronn 1 March 1811, son of Johann Georg Martin Heinrich Kochendörfer and Eva Barbara, marries on 29 November 1837 Eva Margaretha, born at Wallhausen 25 January 1809, daughter of Georg Andreas Renk, innkeeper and master baker at Wallhausen, and the late … Margaretha geb. Zins. The register image, read in place of the index rows cited before. Ancestry's index gives her birth as 15 January and her mother as “Eva Margareta Renk”; the image reads 25 January and Zins. It appears to call the mother Eva Margaretha, where the 1813 register (S443) says Maria Margaretha; the 1813 entry, made by her own husband's parish three years after her death, is followed here. The groom's mother's surname is only partly legible.
52. S768U.S., Public Records Index, 1950–1993, Volume 1 — Aileane S Roberts. Ancestry record 95291004. Index entry only — no image was examined, read 22 September 2026. Probable Aileane S Roberts, born 15 August 1918; residence 1975 at National City and at San Diego, California. A commercial address index. The exact birth date and her third married surname match; the street addresses are not reproduced here.
53. S1005Texas death index, 1958, p. 736. Ancestry record 6830106. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed LADUSCH OTTO, Travis County, 26 December, file 72008. The index adds the state file number of his death certificate.
54. S1207California marriage index — Albert R. Collins and Patricia E. Proeger, married 1967. Ancestry, “California, U.S., Marriage Index, 1960–1985”, record 8294292 (bride index, page 20,493). Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Groom Albert R. Collins, 48; bride Patricia E. Proeger, 28; marriage 1967, county code 90; state file 46991. Earl Proeger, her nephew, confirmed on 2 October 2026 that the bride is his aunt Patricia and Albert R. Collins his uncle Family testimony. ⚠ A computer-printed index, not the certificate. County code 90 is not yet decoded, so the county is not given.