Dora G, Rabo de Peixe is in the council of Ribeira Grande. For a 1955 death (or any birth, marriage or death event within the last 100 years), you would have to write the Civil Registry there. The address for that Civil Registry is here (along with the others for all of the Azores): http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~azrwgw/genresources.html
There is probably only 1 cemetery in Rabo de Peixe. Unless your family has been paying since 1955 for perpetual care, her grave has probably been reused by now. Her remains are probably in a common grave. The Azores just don't have a lot of land and I think it becomes very difficult to have everyone who ever lived there be interred indefinitely, as they do in North America and other countries that have much more land. I was told that most people are interred for 7 years and then the grave is reused. I don't know if the 7 years is a definite rule or it varies a little bit from freguesia to freguesia. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- 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."
