>From the Book Azores: Nine Islands, One History; page 326, footnote # 18, says: Arquivo dos Acores, II: 170.
The above is the resource used to document the story about someone from Ribeira Grande receiving 4,000 reis along with articles of clothing from the Ribeira Grande Town Hall to take care of an abandoned baby for one year. So if some one were to research this, they would have to go back to this original source to read who the child may have been and maybe get some insight as to how to get the "Nannie Registry" There is no listing of this resource in the bibliography of the book to indicate anything more about the sources. I think you would have to contact the author to see where she got her original documentation. Maybe the entry for this original source for the Bibliography was left out? In this same section of the book, it states that "During some years, the number of abandoned children was extremely high, as happened in 1858, when the total surpassed 1,000 babies." Not sure about what is meant here, is 1,000 for all the Islands combined? The translation may have presented a difficulty to preserve the original information intact . The next page states that "more than 70% (of the babies) ended up dying". Then it gives the reasons in addition to being abandoned. So if ancestors were leaving the islands during this time period, one can easily see what an enormous pressure people must have felt to go elsewhere no matter the cost, to survive. Char --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
