Hi Cheri, Thank you very much for your reply this morning and for all of the helpful print out guides. It's nice to know that others will help out when possible. I hope that some day I will be good enough to help someone else out.
What I did want to elaborate on is the fact that the pages to the book were for the most part, tattered, stained and handwriting very difficult to read due to bleeding and/or very small squinched together letters, which made it pretty difficult to read. (Sorry for the long sentence) I was wondering if there is anyone out there who might be familiar with this film and be able or willing to look it up. Thanks again to all! Penny P. On Mar 5, 9:06 pm, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > Penny, > > Your ancestor was born c. 1860 in Calhetas, Sao Miguel. That's on the north > side of the island, at that skinniest part, just west of Rabo de Peixe. > It's emerald green (on my monitor) on this > map:http://pg.azores.gov.pt/drac/cca/ig/mapas/smiguel.gif Calhetas is the > freguesia (village) which is part of the council of Ribeira Grande. The FHL > catalog number for baptisms covering that year is 1438074. > > The death certificate probably asked for the mother's maiden name. > Portuguese women didn't always use a surname, so the answer was that the > informant didn't know, therefore the whole name got recorded as unknown. > > To find his mother's name, you will have to search probably 1862 going back > looking for every child born named something like Gervasio/Gervazo born to a > father named Francisco Telles. Once you find him and obtain the mother's > name, you can check every baptism born to that couple and find his siblings > that way. > > There are training documents on the Azores Genweb to help train your eyes on > how to read (bumble your way though) a > baptism:http://homepage.mac.com/kmacardoza/Genealogy/HowTo_Part_3a.html#reading > > To learn some Portuguese words, you can purchase the Portuguese Word List > from your FHC or you can view it here:http://tinyurl.com/b2q9zx > > 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
