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Oas, Albay • September 2026. Found on FamilySearch: My Great-Grandparents' 1910 Wedding — Marciano Camposano and Saturnina Manlangit. marciano camposano, saturnina manlangit, oas albay marriage record 1910, rafael manlangit, petrona recuenco, jose camposano, eusebia gumba, ligao albay, familysearch philippines, filipino genealogy. Oas, Albay • May 1910 Found on FamilySearch: My Great-Grandparents' 1910 Wedding — Marciano Camposano and Saturnina Manlangit A parish marriage register from Oas, Albay puts my great-grandparents at the altar on May 8, 1910 — and reopens the question of exactly when Saturnina Manlangit was born. The actual 1910 Oas, Albay parish register entry, cleaned for legibility. Source: FamilySearch, Catholic Church records, Oas, Albay, Philippines. Two days ago it was Saturnina Manlangit's household, age 4, in an 1895 tribute census. Today it's her wedding day. The record I found is a Catholic parish marriage regis...

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 ...

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...