Dear Theresa: Well, you were right; I did it backwards in regards to ordering the baptism records for Revla to find Antonio de Lima.
Just because the film arrived within a week, I was eager to get my hands on it and start searching for Antonio. I quickly started realizing that I needed to have the name of his parents, like you said. I think I learned a lesson here. Go for the marriage certificate first! Still, as if I were a gambler, I kept looking through it, hoping to get lucky and that the priest included the last name, like, Antonio, filho de blah blah-*de Lima*. Almost every 4 person was named Antonio!! So that took a long time because I's looking at the name of the parents and realizing, "you don't know what you're looking for!!" I did find an Antonio, filho de Manuel de Lima (Revla) X Marianna Roza (Sao Jose) but thought, why copy it when I don't know if these are his parents! On Saturday hopefully I'll return and order the marriage certificates for him and Feliciana. On the positive side, I am getting more familiar with the names. There were a gazillion guys named Mansel. I've rarely heard that name. Sounds French to me. Are you familiar with it? Regards, Maria Elena P. S. Maybe there was a reason we named our 2nd son ---you guessed it! Antonio Manuel. At the time we didn't know how many Antonio's there would be in the family history. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
