John, Please on pass on my information to whoever is organizing "Amigos das Flores" in Fresno. My sister lives in Clovis and I live in Southern California. We might like to attend.
Debbie [email protected] Researching Azoreans: Jorge (Flores), Freitas (Flores), Enos (San Miguel), Silveira Matos (Faial), Rodrigues (unknown) Immigrated to: Merced, CA Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:09:25 -0700 Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Lomba, Flores marriage records From: [email protected] To: [email protected] CC: [email protected] Duane, The fire theory was my cousin's. (I actually don't remember the cousin who told me). You say that pages appeared to have been torn out. That might indicate that someone in the past who had access to the parish registers was trying to cover up an embarassing illegitmate birth to protect the "family honor" At this point, who knows.. Given that Lomba is such a small place, there's a very good chance that we're related! Several of my Lomba cousins have immigrated to the US. Some live in the Fresno California area, Some live in the Stoughton Mass area. If you live in Califonia, You might be interested in coming this fall to "Amigos das Flores" in Fresno on Saturday September 29. It's sort of a "Flores reunion" I am copying Alcidia Gomes. the orgsnizer of this event. John Vasconcelos. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Duane <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks for the reply, John. Lomba seems to be crawling with Mendonca's, which is the line I am tracing. I noticed that the records don't go back very far there, so I am not surprised that there might have been a fire. In the book I was referring to in the original post, it seems like maybe the pages were ripped out. Very sad... On Monday, March 12, 2012 11:47:58 PM UTC-7, John Vasconcelos wrote: Duane, My father was born in Lomba and I experienced that same problem with those records. According to a cousin who was also born in Lomba, many records are missing She thinks there might have been some records lost in a fire. The situation is particularly bad in my paternal grandmother's line which I've only been able to trace back five generations. John Vasconcelos On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Duane wrote: I'm looking for a marriage record in the Lomba freguesia of Flores, and in searching the CCA site for 1860-1874, it seems the records for at least 1865-1873 have gone missing? Or perhaps they never existed because a church burned down or something? I can't see a note in the book which explains the sitution, and I also looked at the baptisms, and didn't see a bunch of marriages appear there, although I didn't do a record by record search. Does anyone happen to know what may have happened to these records? TIA -- 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." -- 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."
