I have always had excellent results with this site. And, as Eloise pointed out, if your ancestor was not born and/or married in a particular parish, you will not find them there. Why? Because UMinho has loaded all of the existing parish records. If a person was not married in a particular village, you will not find their marriage there, etc. I have not found any omissions or errors (an omission is a birth or marriage that should be there but isn't; an error is somebody whom the site says was born or married there but was not). My advice in these matters is always the same: verify! Verifying is much easier that doing the research from scratch. If UMinho says that your ancestors, Zé Povinho and Maria da Paciência, were married in Velas on New Year's dat 1706, go to your local FHC, order the film and look up the record. If it is not there, then you should not assume that the information is correct. John Miranda Raposo
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Reliability of information Univ Minho NEPS and Famili... Veronica, Rosemarie would say Congratulations! Now go to your nearest Family History Center and look up the birth records of your grandparents and see if they are a match. I was lucky. I was at the last seminar in SLC when Rosemarie told me that, and my cousin and I found two of my Great Uncles birth records and I was able to make a copy too. Ally Vieira Anselmo in Ribeira Seca, Sao Miguel Pinheiro, Nunes, Silveira in Praia do Almoxarife and Pedro Miguel, Faial Silveira, Rodrigues in Sao Jorge In a message dated 4/22/2011 12:51:08 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hello, > >I am new to this group and want to say thank you for all of the >invaluable information I have found so far. >Since all 4 of my grandparents immigrated to the US but were born on >Faial (3 from Pedro Miguel and 1 from Cedros) I have been able to >trace via the Univ. of Minho NEPS geneweb and the Familias Faialenses >my family history. >How accurate is the information? Before I advise other family members >that our paternal grandfather is a >descendant of Joao Garcia Pereira and Isabel Pereira Roxo (original/ >early families settling Faial) I would like to be assured of the >validity of the info. > >Best Regards, >Veronica Perry > >-- >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. 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. 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."
