Dear Fellow Listers Seeing the questions on first/last names reminded me that the Portuguese Paleography booklet is online on Kathy Cardoza's Website:
www.homepage.mac.com/kmacardoza/Genealogy/azoresindex.html For those of you just starting out you need to download the Genealogical Word List and don't forget the Paleography! The Paleography booklet has much more than just handwriting samples; there are 4 or 5 examples of each letter of the alphabet and also documents to translate along with a very important list of GIVEN names and also SURNAMES of the Azores, Madeira and Portugal. If you are serious about learning to read the Portuguese records you need these two documents and also a good Portuguese/English Dictionary. I purchases mine several years ago at Furtado's Imports in San Jose California. I have two, Port/Eng and Eng/Port and they were $50 each at the time but well worth the cost. The Paleography booklet also gives some of the abbreviations that are used along with the most common Latin phrases used in the Church Records. Hope this helps out the "newbies". Rosemarie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
