This conference was AWESOME!!!!! I am fairly new to researching my Portuguese line. I am so happy that I was able to attend this special conference. When I started searching this line I was so discouraged because I was coming up with nothing! I was searching like I did for my father's line which was a breeze. Well I learned real quick at this conference how MUCH the Portuguese people love to change their names around for whatever reason!! With this new knowledge I am able to search much better with MORE of an open mind with the name changes! I learned how to navigate thur the CCA site, and the Family search site. We were even taught how to read or bumble our way thru the Portuguese language, this was a HUGE plus for me. What I mean by this is, I learned how to pick out the important words within the document, this was GREAT help!!
The last day of the conference was ALL research day. At the end of the day Cheri was able to give me about an hour of her time, hands on I would say. I had never stepped into a research center until this conference, so for me it was a bit overwhelming. Cheri showed me how to navigate the family search, reminded me to read the film notes, how to read what I needed from the film, showed me how to find it, showed me how put the reels on and scroll thru the film. She explained to me watch the center line when scrolling thru because it would be a huge clue as to when a book ended or new item section began, this way you would not have to scroll page by page, you could scroll pretty fast until you got to the area you needed. I believe it would have taken me awhile to figure that out!! Cheri and Rosemarie sat with me as we looked for my people and helped me read the language and pick out the important words, and clued me into looking how the priests would write their letters, and or abbreviate first names. I think I caught on pretty good! We did not find the original person we started to look for BUT did find a document to another person on my line!!! Cheri then showed me how I needed to fix up the document and save to my thumb drive. This hands on was exteremely helpful for me! THANKS CHERI and ROSEMAIRE!!!! All the folks that attended this conference were AWESOME!! Such a great bunch of people. I have never visited the Azores, so I truly enjoyed listening to those that have traveled, there. They all had some type of story and or experience to share. It helped me to understand much more about the people of the Azores. Everyone was so helpful with one another, the networking was fantastic. In fact a few of these people live in or near by a city that my ancestors lived, and they are willing to search for some information for me since I came up empty on my attempts. I am a people person, so I miss all of you already :-( I do hope that I will be able to get together with Pat Nostrome and her husband and with Pat Girard ~ these 3 people live only about 10-15 minutes away from me, so I hope we can get together and research. Cheri and Rosemarie THANKS!!! Thanks for taking time out of your busy lives and coordinating this AWESOME conference, this was truly a blessing for me. I hope I will be able to attend the next! :-) To all you attendees: TAKE CARE, Tracy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Terri Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 11:38 PM To: Azores Genealogy Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Azores Conference I went too.Definately a great success Cheri and Rosemarie! I agree with everything Kathy has said...and MORE! I'm still pretty new to researching. I learned about all sorts of resources to look at that can offer a gold mine of info. With your guidance these last few days, i feel more confident. Thank you so much for putting it together. I don't know when i would ever got myself to finally see the Archive Library in Salt Lake , but now i'm inspired to go back. I went alone to the Azores conference...but that's not how it ended. Everyone was kind and great to hang out with. I just wish i had more time with you all. For anyone who missed this one...I would definately recommend you try and make it out for the next one. On Jun 27, 12:59 am, Kathy Cardoza <[email protected]> wrote: > I attended the Azores Conference that just ended up today and I want to > thank Cheri and Rosemarie for a great series of classes and all the > effort they put into making this a great first conference. I hope there > will be many more to come. The classes were informative and interesting > and were especially helpful to newer researchers. But, I have to say, > even being an "old" researcher myself, there is still plenty that I > learned here. But, the best part was the folks that were here. Everyone > was so friendly and fun to be with and I know I made some new friends > these last few days. Plus, it's really nice to be able to put a face and > a personality to the people I see posting on this list. So, for those > who didn't come, you missed a great time! You might want to seriously > think about attending next year. Hope to see you then! > > Kathy Cardoza > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Visit the Azores GenWeb Project: > http://homepage.mac.com/kmacardoza/Genealogy/azoresindex.html > Climb my Family Tree: > http://homepage.mac.com/kmacardoza/Genealogy/Kathy/index.htm > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- 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 from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. 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