Hello,   I have a funny story to tell.     We had errands to do in Woburn yesterday noontime, and afterwards we were hungry.    So, we went to the supermarket in Winchester Center to pick up a few items and to see if they had any .prepared food.  we could get for lunch.    We were pleasantly surprised to see the selection of soups for people to eat which included  "Portuguese Kale" soup.    Since hubby is half-Portuguese and his grandmother always made it while he was growing up,  of course, he wanted some.     We took it to the register, and the lady there commented on the soup;   she said she made it.    I said  I had made it once and it took me an entire day.    :o)   as I am not Portuguese.      We went to leave the store, and a lady behind us asked to talk to us, so we stopped to chat.    She started commenting on the soup, and that her father was Portuguese.    Then she mentioned "East Cambridge" and, of course, my husband's eyes lit up.    To make a long story shorter, it turns out that her maiden name was PACHECO !     And, her family owned the "Willow?? Furniture Store" in Cambridge, so that was one of the other Pacheco families in Cambridge.   We talked some more, and we discovered that we both went to Arlington High School during the 1960's.    We had so many things in common with this lady it was unbelievable.     She even mentioned a KELLY family and, if it is the same family, I used to babysit the kids.   I don't think I've mentioned my husband's grandparents this year,  but in past years I mentioned that his grandfather,  "Tony" PACHECO was killed in a car accident in 1929.    He left a widow with 5 young children and she was pregnant with twins.    She delivered a month later but both boys died before they were 2.    Well,  I believe that Grandma Elsie was so angry at her husband for leaving her - that she hardly ever spoke of him - and she told her grandchildren that there were no Pacheco relatives in MA.     ..  A few yrs. ago a researcher on-line told me that another Pacheco family in Cambridge .was. related, as they came from the same village in the Azores.   ..   At this second, I can't remember how many Pacheco families there were in Cambridge and Somerville from 1900 to 1930,  but it's entirely possible that this lady we met yesterday was a "distant cousin" of my husband.    :o)   Please see my old postings on the MA and Azorean Lists  for information on the  family-tree of my (now) husband.   Betty                 (near Lowell, MA)   FYI: Please know that yesterday I got approved to start up a brand-new Message Board for "New England Research."     There already is a Mailing List, which is called   New-Eng-Gen www.rootsweb.com