There are two places that I have had key success in pin-pointing the
village, that someone is from.
This is after every US document I have ever found-only states Azores or San
Miguel.....which is useless in genealogy.
1. The church marriage record here in the states-from the church ledger
book. (not the county certificate document)
The priest is suppose to record "in the ledger book" where
(town-church) the groom or bride was originally baptized at.
Technically the priest should have sent a letter to that baptism
church-to confirm the facts. Didn't always happen.
2. The "original" mortuary information sheet, filled out while making
arrangements......at the funeral home
Most funeral homes have all their old records, or they turn them over
to another similar firm, for safe keeping.
Typically its just a one page info sheet that one of the family
members filled out.
NTX
On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 9:54:53 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
> I would appreciate any tips about determining what freguesia a family
> came from. Seem to be running into apparent "brick walls" because nearly
> every document I have found only lists "Azores Islands". On one side of
> the family I have the name of the island and town they lived in
> before immigrating to the US but don't know if that is where births or
> marriages took place; on the other side all I have is the island. The
> immigrations I know about took place between 1850-1905. Thank you for any
> advice.
>
> Lisa Vierra Turrentine
> researching Vierra, Silveira, Pereira, Beirao from Azores
> researching McKinney, White, Wilkerson, Rice
>
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