In a message dated 9/5/2009 11:20:25 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Carmen, > > No pop ups have ever come through with list mail on my end. You may want > to check your firewalls to make sure your ports are all closed or hidden. > > Guill did the book around 1972 and then redid it and had intended to make > it become part of a series and decided to title it volume 5. That was the > early 1990s. That one has a brown cover with a photo of the shoreline on > it with a few other inset photos. The 1972 one had some yellow, green and > red stripes on it, I think. I haven't seen that one in 10 years, so it's > hard to remember. > > Guill was going to go into more detail in Volumes 1 - 4 and released > volume 5 first as a summary. He died before publishing the other books. > > Unless you have a royal line, Guill's book will not have your family in > it. The only thing applicable for genealogy (unless you have the royal line) > are the list of names, list of churches, list of freguesias, and the maps. > All of these have been extracted. If you are interested in a general > history of the Azores, it's something like 600 pages, all in English. So > it's > good for a general history. > > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das > Tainhas, Achada > Dear Cheri:
Dr. Guill's history of the Azores has been a real treasure for non-Portuguese readers since its publication. The book and the author have their critics and detractors, but as I always asked them: is there a better history of the Azores available in the English language? Until very recently, the answer w as a a resounding No! And, that is still the case for those English only readers seeking leads on their genealogy. However, even in Dr. Guill's book, unless you can trace your roots back to some of the most important early settlers, you are out of luck. As for a good bilingual history of the Azores, today there is nothing better than Açores: Nove Ilhas, Uma História/Azores: Nine Islands, One History (Susana Goulart Costa, translated by Rosa Neves Simas and edited by Deolinda Maria Adão; published by Institute of Governmental Studies Press, University of California, Berkley: 2008). The translation into English is by far one of the best I have ever seen. There are very, very few terms that I would have translated differently (morgado and víncula are among the few exceptions). I think that Dr. Guill's book has been such a rarity and so expensive because it has been long out of print and was the only decent history of the Azores published in English. With the publication of Susana Goulart Costa's book, the demand for his book, long out of print, will drop as will the price. This is not to say that I will not continue to value my copy and keep it "guardado a sete chaves" as the Portuguese say. Dr. Guill was always unfailingly kind to me and very generous with his time and knowledge. I'd write to him in California with a question and within a day or two I'd get a telephone call from him personally. His enthusiasm for the Azores and all things Azorean was always so evident in his discussions with me. John Miranda Raposo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
