Thanks, Shirl! I'll have to look into whether any library in the inter-library loan system has a copy of Familias da Ilha das Flores.
David 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, Pereira, Álvares (all Lajes do Pico) S. Jorge - Silva, Botelho, Azevedo, Cardoso (Urzelina); Silva, Azevedo, Cardoso (Santo António in Norte Grande) On Sunday, May 5, 2013 8:42:00 PM UTC-4, Shirl Sereque wrote: > > Hi! > I was able to get Jose Maria Abaccassis's 4-volume books through > inter-library loan. One batch that was "free" was from the Library of > Congress but the other batch was $25 from a the University in Los Angeles. > Did you inquire about that route? (These books were Genealogica Hebreica > dos Azores). It took a while, but I finally was able to get them and used > a ton of paper copying page after page. :-) > - Shirl - > > > On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 8:03:18 PM UTC-7, David wrote: > > I have tried to locate online either some place from which I can purchase > a copy of the book Familias da Ilha das Flores or else some library that > has a copy I could request... But no luck yet on either score. Not even > the Family History Library Catalog seems to list it... > > I did locate on a cached page from the Azores Regional Government website > an e-mail address for the author, who apparently had a role with a > government agency, but the current version of the website no longer carries > his name or that government e-mail address, so I have to assume he is no > longer in that role and so the e-mail address is no longer effective. > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could obtain a hard copy, or > are they all gone and I just need to wait for the e-book version to get > published (and in the meantime rely on the kindness of strangers for > look-ups)? > > So, pending my getting hands on a copy of the Familias book, I do need to > ask for someone to do me the kindness of looking up a couple whom I located > in the Lajes das Flores section of the Casais das Flores e do Corvo book, > and letting me know in particular the names and birth dates of any children > they had: > > José Francisco Coelho [n. Lomba, Lajes das Flores, f.º de Manuel > FurtadoCoelho e de Isabel > Furtado] c. 1844.09.01 c. Ana da Trindade [f.ª de Manuel Furtado Lourenço > e de Maria da Trindade]. -- from Casais, p. 107. > > Thanks in advance for any help... > > David da Silva Cornell > Miami, FL > > > -- 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.
