Eliseu,
Thanks for the info, it is quite interesting. I never knew that type of thing existed, I’m so use to having catholic cemeteries and other cemeteries in Hawaii. I’m keeping all of this info to someday put in my family tree book. Gail From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eliseu Pacheco da Silva Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 9:08 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Find my sisters burial records Gail, At the cemetery you buy the land. After that you have a property certificate like when you buy a house. After that if you want to build something there you have to pay a new fee. No one takes care of the grave or mausoleum you built there unless you have someone to take care of it. If a corps is buried in the earth it must stay there at least for 5 years. Only after that you may put another corps in the same grave. Of course if you build a mausoleum you may put more coffins (lead urns) there. Usually people buy the land to build some kind of memorial and to be buried in the same land as his/her mother (for example) was buried… Nowadays, there are no private cemeteries (may be very special cases or old ones). In Ponta Delgada we have two cemeteries: The Cemitério de S. Joaquim (the so called public cemetery) and the Cemitério dos Ingleses (English Cemetery) which is no longer used because everybody has to be buried at the so called public cemetery by force of law. The designation comes from the time when people was buried in the churches. At that time you had Catholic burials, Protestant burials (first law was in 1805 but only in 1835 the burial outside the churches started… in some places only ended about 1920’s). (I heard that the Jewish people were buried in the beaches… not sure of!!) eliseu -- 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."
