Hi Mary I never thought of it that way. I guess you are right it was not that important to them as ours are today. They had much more important things to think about as in staying alive and healthly. Just surviving. My Grandmother was a person who was very nice and felt everyone in the world could be nice and trusted. A book she wrote was about one Universe the all for one and one for all. She thought everyone should be equil in the world. No one better then the other. She wrote all about how it could be done in her book. Thanks for reminding me that my mother may not have understood the reason behind the dates either. Vivian
--- On Sat, 10/25/08, Mary Ann Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Mary Ann Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Questions (Names in Azores?) To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008, 11:20 AM Hi Mary, I think it's more a matter of having lost track of dates and time. I suspect that birthdays weren't celebrated in the same way that they are here. I have, somewhere in the far recesses of this old brain of mine, that patron saint's days were more celebrated than actual birthdays. So Saint Joseph's day would be more important to Jose than the miraculous day he took his first breath - miraculous considering how dangerous childbirth was in those days. Mary Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: Mary Bordi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008 10:32 am Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Questions (Names in Azores?) To: [email protected] > On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:20 PM, Vivian Christy wrote: > > > My grandmother lied about her age. She also lied on her S.S. record > > > and said she was born in 1900 which is wrong. > > I've found "errors" on census records of a lot of my Azorean > relatives. Especially ages, year of marriage and arrival in this > country. I don't think they were deliberately lying--maybe they had > forgotten. Or another family member gave the census taker the info. > > As far as names, one family went by the mother's last name until the > > kids entered school and then they changed to the father's last name. > > It certainly makes for interesting puzzle pieces to try to put together! > > Also, someone in the Azores (Sao Jorge, actually) whose mother was a > > Homen told me that the women in his family did not like the surname > "Homem" ("man") and would use a religious name instead. > > Mary Bordi > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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, log into your Google account and 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
