Robin, Infants with no names can be recorded however the person recorded them. I don't know of a set way. Usually they did put a last name. I'll use Borba for the last name. Therefore, I would have seen things like Infant Borba, Unnamed Borba, Male Borba, Unknown Borba. I've seen "Unnamed Child" "Unnamed Infant" and the name being left blank. Ancestry probably didn't train their people to record all these infants under one name (as in "unnamed Borba.")
What does the 1930 census say for Jack Borba/Barbe and his son "Dealton?" Catholic death books are arranged by date, I think (or the ones I searched were). A search would have to be done looking for the 1934 death death of an 8 year old child. Infants/small children are much harder to deal with in America (perhaps Canada too). America started the practice of issuing death certificiates around 1910, but full compliance was not reached with all states for a few years. Trying to find the death before the 19teens is hard. In the Portuguese records they were recorded in the Catholic records. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, R. das Tainhas, Achada --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
