Jesse: I will let others reply to your question of "any significant breakthroughs with research methods". Others will also be of help with your Sao Miguel research.
As regards the island of Santa Maria, give us names and dates for what you have already discovered; there are a few on this list who have accumulated sizable databases from at least three of the parishes. Denis On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Jesse Pacheco <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi group, > > I've been out of the loop for awhile now (haven't really been able to do > any research for over two years now) but was wondering if there have been > any developments or changes as far as the status of the records online and > their accessibility has gone. I remember someone had been in correspondence > with the Azores site who said they did plan to eventually have all the > records online, but did not give a date. I also remember that I had been > using a website called etombo who had a great deal of mainland records > online (although their interface was slower than the Azores site's). I > believe etombo also had place holders for Azores records, or maybe I had > been told they would eventually host them? I could be imagining that > though. Familysearch was also in the midst of some changes and was > regularly adding records. > > Unfortunately, I still am not really able to get to any family history > centers (and if I remember correctly the one nearest me was having > problems) and so *I was wondering if someone who has stayed up to date > could tell me if there have been any significant breakthroughs with > research methods in the past two years. It would be any major things since > the summer of 2010.* Time was an issue, but the big reason I got out of > researching was because I had done as much as I could with the resources I > had. I would love to be able to get back into it. > > If it's relevant, my research revolves around Lagoa and Nordeste in Sao > Miguel as well as undetermined parts of Santa Maria, and then Massachusetts > and tiny bit of California in the 1900s. > > Thanks! > > -- > Jesse [email protected] > > -- > 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."
