Hello List! I'd like to announce the soft launch of the integration of 15 Portuguese-language newspapers from California to the existing database that is hosted by the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives. It's a soft launch as we still have to do some work to the webpages BUT the database is up and functioning!
The newly added newspapers were scanned in partnership with the J.A. Freitas Library of the PFSA (based in California) and date from the late 1880's to the early 1930's. You can begin your search at this address: http://www.lib.umassd.edu/archives/paa/diario.html Newspapers are a fascinating source for family information: from birth, marriage and death announcements, to travel plans, and 'indagações' (missing people announcements). If you have any questions related to searching the database please feel free to contact me off list. Note that the newspapers are in Portuguese and search terms *must* be entered in Portuguese--we do not provide translations. If there is enough interest/questions, and if Cheri is ok with it, I can post the information guide that I forward to researchers about searching the newspapers. Sonia Sónia Pacheco Librarian Archivist Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese American Archives Claire T. Carney Library University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 285 Old Westport Road N. Dartmouth, MA 02747 Tel. 508-999-8695 Fax 508-999-8424 Email [email protected] Web site: http://www.lib.umassd.edu/archives/Archives.html -- 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."
