My great grandparents - - Jose M. Soares and Maria Joaquina (???) Soares lived in Somerville, on Columbia St. Anyone make any connections?? Diane
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Shirley Allegre <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Everyone: I just have to mention that my maternal grandfather, Joe De > Mello added on PINE in 1915. So in my genealogy program I have five JOE DE > MELLO PINEs. Thank God my grandfather's uncle Joe Mello didn't add Pine as > well. > Shirley in CA > ----- Original Message ----- From: "yvonne domings" <[email protected]> > To: "Azores Genealogy" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 4:53 PM > > Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Azorean names in Cambridge, MA, USA > > > East Cambridge has some great Azorean restaurants (Portugalia, Atasca, > Cafe Portugal) and bakeries. Many Azoreans also moved to Somerville, > which is right near east Cambridge. Many moved to Hudson as well. If > you can't find information on a name, try Anglicizing the name. For > example, my grandmother-in-law was Lipoldinha (spelled several > different ways), but called herself Pauline. If you say it fast with > an English pronunciation you can see where Pauline came from. I was > fortunate to find this early on when she was marrying my grandfather- > in-law João (called himself John). That was not as much of a stretch. > Otherwise, I never would have known. What I do is try to follow a > hunch out until I have enough confirming evidence to either prove it > right or wrong. I'm no trained geneologist, but I think you will have > to do that when you hit a dead end. It is so frustrating. I can see > why people give up. The Maria thing is equally maddening not to > mention the changing surnames. OY!! > > Yvonne > > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to Azores+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <azores%[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<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."
