Thanks so much for the kind responses, Greg, Eric, John, and "E." I'm delighted to know that Pat's materials seem to have wound up at UMass-Dartmouth and I'll be contacting the folks suggested to see how the materials can be researched. Thanks again to all.
David da Silva Cornell Miami, FL Researching the following surnames: Faial - Terra (unknown freguesia(s)) Flores - Freitas, Lourenço, Coelho (unknown freguesia(s)) Pico - Silveira Cardoso, Macedo, Machado, Pereira Madruga, Ferreira, Cardoso, Cardoso Machado, Vieira, Bettencourt, Dutra, Castanho, Homem, Goulart, Quaresma, Moniz, Barreto, Silveira, Mancebo, Pereira, Álvares (all Lajes do Pico) S. Jorge - Silva, Botelho, Azevedo, Cardoso (Urzelina); Silva, Azevedo, Cardoso (Santo António in Norte Grande) On Sunday, April 21, 2013 5:21:38 PM UTC-4, Greg Dias wrote: > > David, > I too, have some of Pat Amarals info, turns out she was my fathers first > cousin. > I never met her, I only just found out a year ago my Portuguese roots were > from the Azores (long story) > Anyway I did some scouting around and found the APGHS is no longer > functioning (I far as I know) > But I found that all of her work was originally sent to donated to the > Taunton Library. Then sent over to UMASS > According to Sonia Pacheco, her contact info below, she told me this: > ** > *The APGHS collection is comprised primarily of their book collection; > the 30,000 number that I saw at one point in this email thread refers to a > series of index cards that they put together trying to document all known > Portuguese individuals in the United States. There are *many* problems with > those records, and I generally do not recommend researchers use them unless > they're absolutely stuck on an individual and are grasping at straws for a > lead. > > We do indeed know the correct name of the collection that was donated to > us; note that it was Susanne who got it wrong ;) Again, several reasons > were at play as to why the collection was donated to us and not to another > public library, the most significant being that we are the only archives in > the United States who's mission is to document Portuguese-American history > and therefore it made sense that we be the permanent home of the records. > > The materials that they have on individual families (a limited number) has > been cataloged and is searchable using our library catalog. > > Please let me know if you have any other questions, > > Sonia* > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > So, I hope this helps, good luck in your search. Sonia also told me that > “maybe” one day they would ever digitize the collection? > We are going to the Azores this May 7th, I am very excited since with > the help of the group and Pat Amaral’s tenacity I have connected with > family there and will visit the home of my Great Grandfather and see the > birthplace my grandfather > Greg Dias / Furtado..... Ihlas Faial/Pico > > > Contact info for: > Sónia Pacheco > Librarian Archivist > Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese American Archives > Claire T. Carney Library > University of Massachusetts Dartmouth > 285 Old Westport Road > N. Dartmouth, MA 02747 > Tel. 508-999-8695 > Fax 508-999-8424 > Email [email protected] <javascript:> > Web site: http://www.lib.umassd.edu/archives/Archives.html > > *From:* David <javascript:> > *Sent:* Sunday, April 21, 2013 1:13 AM > *To:* [email protected] <javascript:> > *Subject:* [AZORES-Genealogy] Pat Amaral: Stone Fleet and Conversos > > When I started working on the family history as a teen in the '70s, I > maintained for a while a lively correspondence with Pat Amaral, one of the > leaders in establishing Portuguese-American genealogy. I understand that > she passed away some years ago. > > Pat informed me that my g'g'grandfather Antonio Hurd / António da Terra > had served the Union during the Civil War, as a sailor in the Stone Fleet > (sometimes called the "Great Stone Fleet"). (For those not familiar with > this attempt to blockade Confederate harbors, here's an overview: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Fleet) > > I have combed through Union records (from during the period as well as > later records regarding veterans and pensioners) but found no mention of my > g'g'grandfather under any conceivable variant of his anglicized name or of > his original Portuguese name. I'm thinking that perhaps the sailors of the > Stone Fleet were never formally enlisted in the Union Navy... > > I have my side of my correspondence with Pat in storage in a different > city, but as I recall she didn't indicate what her source was. Does anyone > else here have an ancestor who (actually or allegedly) sailed with the > Stone Fleet, and thus has familiarity with the relevant sources? And/or > does anyone know what Pat did with her source materials collection -- i.e., > is it in a library somewhere, or otherwise accessible to researchers? > > She also insisted to me (again, iirc, without naming her source(s)) that > certain of my families were of known Converso descent, e.g., Silveira > Cardoso from Lajes do Pico. For this reason too I'd love to know whether > her source materials have been preserved and are accessible somewhere. > > Thanks in advance, > > David da Silva Cornell > Miami, FL > > Researching the following surnames: > > Faial - Terra (unknown freguesia(s)) > > Flores - Freitas, Lourenço, Coelho (unknown freguesia(s)) > > Pico - Silveira Cardoso, Macedo, Machado, Pereira Madruga, Ferreira, > Cardoso, Cardoso Machado, Vieira, Bettencourt, Dutra, Castanho, Homem, > Goulart, Quaresma, Moniz, Barreto, Silveira, Mancebo, Pereira, Álvares (all > Lajes do Pico) > > S. 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