The LDS Church has the Immigrant Ancestor Project online, but work has been stopped on the Portuguese part of it for a variety of reasons. I just heard back that: There is new software to be installed hopefully this summer that will allow a better search of the approx 27,000 to 28,000 Portuguese records the Church has already.
In the meantime, if you go to immigrants.byu.edu then click on Search- that takes you to a search screen -then if you leave all spaces blank except for Place and choose "Freguesia" in the drop down menu, click the search button, it brings up about 7800 passports from Portugal to other places. Lots are to Brasil. This may be a help to a few of you. I have not worked with this search screen enough to have had success with other parts of it. If I hear anything more, I will let you know. 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
