Nancy, The URL or something is needed to navigate to that particular record, because the # 2 that I found was a Maria, filha legitimata. Nothing unusual there.
Perhaps the priest. Most don't give a lot of detail (the supply of paper and ink could be one factor). I remember sitting once with George Pacheco in N.Dartmouth and I found a baptism that didn't follow the norm. George took a look and in the baptism the priest documented that he asked the mother 3 times who the father was and she stated every time she didn't know, but that the priest felt that she did indeed know who the father of her baby was. And he wrote something to that effect in the document. Another time, on a marriage, there was a line that didn't follow the norm (or it was the first time that I had ancestors get married around Easter). It said that they had fulfilled their Lenten duties or something like that. I think those are more of a rare find though. I think most priests and scribes just did what they were told and followed the form for writing a baptism. They had no idea that people would be looking at them hundreds of years later for clues! Cheri -- 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." To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
