Thank you to those that shared their experiences about relatives changing their names, in some cases dramatically. It's good to know my cousin and I are not alone in what seems to be a never ending quest to find our ancestors.
I wish you all the best of luck in your search. Regards, Michelle ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 8:33 PM Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Why our Portuguese ancestors moved so often & used I've come to the realization that It is extremely difficult tracing family (duh!). My family came from Capelo, Faial. My dad came from a family of 11. On entering the US, half came with the name Rose (da Rosa). The other half came with the name of da Silva or just Silva. One uncle in RI changed his last name to Silvia. My paternal grandfather's name was actually Jose Silveira as I understand it.My paternal grandmother's maiden name was Maria Brum but she was mostly known as Maria de Jesus. She was married to Jose Silveira my gfather). All 11 children had the middle name of Correia (I don't know where that came from; I'm thinking that might have been an important descendant. One aunt married a first cousin who's name was Francisco Brum. My uncle Manuel married a first cousin, Theresa. This goes on and on. On my mother's side, her maiden name was Andrade and her middle name was Cunha. So where did the Cunha come from? A couple of years ago I had a cousin in Faial attempt to get records in Horta on my mother's family. Papers sent to me listed about 5 Filomena Andrade's from Capelo all around the same time as my mother's existence. I haven't pursued tracing family since then and I don't know if I will. Maybe on my next trip to Faial. Good luck to all. I enjoy reading all the e-mails and I'm astonished as to how many of you have ancestors in common. Interesting. Maybe before I get too senile I'll work at it. It's just too overwhelming right now. Laura from California In a message dated 6/12/2009 4:51:36 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hello group, I hope someone has the answer to these questions. Maybe someone in their family explained why. I've been having a rough time tracing my family. Slowly but surely I am finding new information. and can credit that success to being able to cross reference information found at the UMass Dartmouth Paper. One of my biggest problems has been the frequency in which they moved and changed their names. I don't know if others have experienced that or not or maybe it was just most of my family on the run. LOL A recent example is a relative named Arsenio Pamplona Corte Real Camara. I've found him using the names Harrison Cambra, Harrison Camara, the above name, Arsenio Camara/Cambra and Frank Perry/Pereira. Absolutely unbelievable!!! You'd think they were living in this day & age and were afraid of identify theft. Curiosity is my main reason for the questions but am I to expect this with most of my Portuguese ancestors? I've definitely found it to be the case with the moving part but the name changes too??? Thank you for your time. Regards, Michelle --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
