Historic Hinkle to Host 2026 NBA Cup

 

Hinkle Fieldhouse, Indianapolis. NBA.com.

The NBA announced Hinkle Fieldhouse on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis will host the championship game of the 2026 NBA Cup on 11 December. The venue is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a real "basketball cathedral". I've posted about Hinkle Fieldhouse previously. The building was an inspiration to the current home of the Indiana Pacers, now called Gainbridge Fieldhouse.

It's very cool to see Indy and Hinkle Fieldhouse will host the NBA Cup, and we'll certainly be watching (streaming on Amazon Prime).

Research Progress July 2026

This is my monthly post to recap progress on DNA research questions. The month of June heavily featured work travel and primary obligations, and less time for family history research. I'll take this as an opportunity to look back to previous questions from May for this update.

RootsTech 2027 presentations

The call for RootsTech 2027 presentations has now closed, and I'm awaiting news. I submitted two proposals before departing to Spain. I also booked my flights and the same Airbnb I used for RootsTech 2025, so either way I'm planning to attend in person.

My Paternal Side

It's been a while since the May update, and there's been some progress on the questions related to Irish immigrants Bridget and John O'Brien. Mainly this is an update on progress with chromosome mapping. Using the tools on DNAPainter, I'm now up to 119 segments mapped (24%) for my Dad, and 183 segments mapped (30%) for me. 16 of those segments on my Dad's side are "Unknown O'Brien", as these are segments from known matches who are either from the Pennsylvania O'Briens group or a growing mystery group of likely O'Briens who left Ireland for Australia. 

I'm hoping to spend some more time in July on this mystery new Australia group.

My Maternal Side

Very little progress since the previous month's update on my maternal side research questions. I hope to pick these up again this month.

New Tools

I am continuing to use Gedminer to identify errors in my tree on Ancestry, duplicates, and stray people who were added long ago without proper references or sources. There's much more to do here.

National Archives plans to close records locations

Sharing this article from KQED, The Bay Area's National Archives office is closing, researchers are worried (26 June 2026). 

An article from 25 June 2026 in Federal News Network states that NARA plans to close three records centers - Chicago, San Francisco/San Bruno, and Seattle.

Closing out June

 

Photo by Patrick Jones. Mercado San Miguel, Madrid. 12 June 2026.

We've reached the end of the month. It's been active with travel, planning for upcoming trips, World Cup soccer, and the return of summer heat to our corner of Northern VA. Family history blogging has slowed quite a bit, and I'm not sure things will pick up in July.

We have a family reunion in a couple weeks. I think July is going to sail by, even with the extra day in the month.

Josephine

 

New Orleans Times-Picayune. 29 Apr 1917.

Picking up from my previous post, a death notice in the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced the funeral of Josephine Carrera Debucceres at St. Roch Cemetery. Working backward, Josephine appears in the 1900 US Census, running an oyster and fruit store on Royal Street, living with her children and brother Vincent.

Ancestry. 1900 US Census. New Orleans, LA.

By 1910, Josephine was listed in the census under the name of her late husband "Nicolas Debucceres" at Elysian Fields Avenue, although Nicolas had died in 1895. On the next page, Josephine's brother Vincent is still living in the household and working as a fisherman. Josephine appears in various city directories, including in 1901 and 1911, running an oyster shop.

Going back further, in April 1879, a French language newspaper announced the marriage of Nicolo DeBuchery and Guiseppa Guereria. Their marriage record is found in the New Orleans marriages on FamilySearch, from 10 April 1879, with a slightly different spelling of her last name, Guereira.

L'abeille de La Nouvelle-Orléans. 13 Apr 1879.

FamilySearch. New Orleans marriages, 10 Apr 1879.

FamilySearch. New Orleans, 1879.

Maybe the marriage records for the children of Josephine and Nicolo will point to the connection between the Ciofalo/Huber family. The city directory entries haven't uncovered a link.