Fawnie, If you will post the names you have to the list, approximate birth years and where they settled here in the US, listmembers may have already researched them and/or give you guidance and support. We can help to find them on ship's manifest which might help you find them on Passportes, etc.
"E" On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 9:18 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Fawnie, > > This type of request is one of the most common I get, especially when > someone wants to make a trip and experience the joy of talking to > relatives. My brother is doing this exact thing next week for Pico. > > You can email me privately with the details of those from Pico and I can > check my database, the largest in the world for Pico and Terceira, and I > might be able to tell you if you're lucky. But I can say it's one of the > biggest challenges because they could have moved away to anywhere and there > might not be anyone left. > > On my first trip to Pico in 1992 I wanted to see if any of my > grandmother's cousins in Sao Roque were still living there. Turns out > everyone already moved to California, but I did find if I went back an > extra generation I was able to find living cousins still in Sao Roque. > > I did have success finding a distant cousin on my Leal da Rosa side from > Piedade. It was because this particular surname combination was unique > enough and stayed the same for generations. Other times these combinations > are no longer used. > > Send email to: > [email protected] > > Doug da Rocha Holmes > Sacramento, California > Pico & Terceira Genealogist > 916-550-1618 > www.dholmes.com > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] How to find relatives still living in Faial > and/or Pico > From: Fawnie <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, May 04, 2013 3:47 am > To: [email protected] > > Good Day, > > I was wondering how I would begin a search to find relatives still living > in Faial and/or Pico. > > After my search for the Silveira family, I believe that their are > descendents of my G.G. grandmother that never left the Faial and/or Pico to > come to America. I have the names of the siblings, yet I am not sure how > to go about searching generations after. > > Has anyone ever searched for descendents of their ancestors, in the > Azores, and found them? If so, how did you do this? > > Your guidance is greatly appreciated. > > ~Happiness and Smiles~ Fawnie > -- > > -- > For 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." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores?hl=en. > > > -- For 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." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores?hl=en.
