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Ligao, Albay • October 2026. Found: Lolo Marciano’s 1909 Baptismal Record, Hidden by a Misspelled Surname. marciano perseveranda baptismal record, ligao albay 1909 baptism, familysearch misspelled surname, filipino genealogy, bicol family history, perseveranda family, fil-am ancestry, forgotten island memory, 1/2. FAMILY ARCHIVE • GENEALOGY • OCTOBER 2026 Found: Lolo Marciano’s 1909 Baptismal Record, Hidden by a Misspelled Surname A FamilySearch computer misread the Perseveranda name. A search for his lola Francisca found him anyway, right after I watched a movie about forgetting. Lolo Marciano’s baptismal entry, Ligao, Albay, January 6, 1909. Cropped from the FamilySearch image and enhanced with AI for legibility. The original is linked in Sources. On 10/6, I watched Forgotten Island. The lost island in that film is called Nakali, short for Nakalimutan, and it wipes the memories of the people who visit it. I have...

Oas, Albay, Philippines • June 2026. Lola Rosa Camposano Baptismal Record Found on FamilySearch — A Filipino Family's 1914 Genealogy Discovery. Filipino genealogy, FamilySearch Philippines, baptismal record Albay, Oas Albay surnames, Camposano, Manlangit, Recuenco, Bicol family history, St. Michael the Archangel Parish Church Oas Albay. Genealogy • June 2026 Found on FamilySearch: Lola Rosa's 1914 Baptismal Record From Oas, Albay A Catholic register from a Bicol parish, 112 years old — and it tells four generations of a Filipino family's story. Here is everything the document reveals, and why your lola's church record matters for every Fil-Am family. Two-page spread from the 1914 baptismal register of St. Michael the Archangel Parish, Oas, Albay. Each page holds two entries. Rosa Camposano's record is the bottom-left entry on the left page. Source: FamilySearch.org. My lola's name was Rosita. Rosi...

"To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter." The quote is from Euripedes ' play Helen (which coincidentally is my daughters' maternal grandmother's name). Helen is a drama by Euripides about Helen, first produced in 412 BC for the Dionysia in a trilogy that also contained Euripides' lost Andromeda. The play has much in common with Iphigenia in Tauris, one of the playwright's later works. E uripides c. 480 – c. 406 BC) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom a significant number of plays have survived. Some ancient scholars attributed 95 plays to him but, according to the Suda, it was 92 at most. Of these, 18 or 19 have survived more or less complete (there has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds) and there are also fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays. More of his plays have survived int...

Oas, Albay • September 2026. Found on FamilySearch: My Great-Grandmother Saturnina Manlangit's Household in the 1895 Oas, Albay Census. saturnina manlangit, rafael manlangit, petrona recuenco, oas albay census 1895, manlangit family genealogy, filipino genealogy familysearch, cabeceria oas albay, rosa camposano mother. GENEALOGY • OAS, ALBAY • SEPT 2026 Found on FamilySearch: My Great-Grandmother Saturnina Manlangit's Household in the 1895 Oas, Albay Census An 1895–96 tribute ledger, an 1881 census, and the AI-assisted read of two 19th-century Spanish records that named my great-great-grandparents — and seven siblings I didn't know existed. PinoyBuilt illustration. The actual 1895–96 Oas, Albay padrón page — the primary source for this article — is reproduced in the body below. I've spent months chasing my great-grandmother's name through other people's paperwork. Saturnina Manlangit surfaces in exactly one place I...

Albay, Bicol • July 2026. Learn Filipino: Maganda, Magayon, and the Word for Beautiful That Named a Volcano. maganda meaning, magayon bikol, bikol word for beautiful, mount mayon meaning, daragang magayon legend, gugurang bikol mythology, ma- prefix tagalog, kagandahan kagayonan, oas albay, decolonize filipino beauty, kayumanggi, learn filipino regional languages. Learn Filipino • Regional Languages • July 2026 Maganda, Magayon, and the Word for Beautiful That Named a Volcano Tagalog says maganda. Bikol says magayon. They mean the same thing — and one of them became the name of the most perfect mountain in the Philippines. Mount Mayon rises over Albay — known in Bikol as Bulkang Magayon, "the beautiful volcano." Hero image: Gemini/Imagen for PinoyBuilt. The last time I rode the train through Bicol, I was going to a funeral. It was for my great-grandmother — Lola Inay, Valeriana Presenta Perseveranda ...