Good morning everyone and Happy Father's Day to you all. I've gathered many documents on my family and just this morning I received the SSN application my grandmother completed back in 1966. It seems like every document has a different variation on surnames. I'm used to the Azorean naming traditions (my grandfather went by Ferreira and sometimes by Mendes, great uncle that combined his parents' surnames at times) however one thing I'm curious about is why the same person's surname sometimes includes the prefix 'de' and sometimes does not. Example: deSousa (or de Sousa) and Sousa. Is this just a transcriber error or another Azorean naming 'tradition'?
Also -- my grandmother always listed her maiden name as Maria Candida but her parents were Sousa and Rocha. On her marriage registry (1920s) she listed her mother's maiden name as Candida but on her SSN application (1966) she listed her mother's maiden name as Rocha. Any guesses her? Thanks for any insight you can provide. Timya -- 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."
