RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] ancestor of Linda Jardin

Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:22:12 -0700

Hi Linda,

If you have looked and not found any other Leonor in Sao Sebastiao records, look first in Praia and then in Se, Angra.

When your document says pais incognitos, that is certainly an exposta and not the Leonor you found.
Again, getting the Family Finder test will help here, but only in a general way until more and more are tested.

The record you found lists parents and grandparents.

One way to do it is find all siblings of both parents, then find all who married, then try and find all deaths and all who emigrated. It's a massive task and probably nearly impossible, but you need to find out the fate of this particular Leonor to eliminate her. If you are lucky, you will find she married in the Azores and then you will be certain she's not your ancestor.

Then you can search for all named Leonor on Terceira for this time frame, paying closest attention to those who are expostas. If there is only one, that's probably your ancestor.

Without either parent with names, you are facing a major challenge. You can't really see who are the aunts and other relatives. If your Leonor had a daughter and living direct maternal descendants, you can also do the mt-DNA test and hope to find her line matching someone else, but only eventually as more and more people get that test.

Doug da Rocha Holmes
Sacramento, California
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618
www.dholmes.com


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Subject: RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] ancestor of Linda Jardin
From: "Linda Jardin" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, October 24, 2013 12:17 pm
To: <[email protected]>

Hi Doug,
 
This is what I found so far.  The passport record from Ponta Delgada to Hawaii in 1985.  Leonor is listed as Leonor de Jesus pais incognitos.  In 1892 Leonor married Antonio Ferreira Cherri helped me with the marriage record and it reads Leonor (unable to make out the last name) is from the Matriz, Sao Sebastiao.  I found Antonio’s baptism record from Feteiras in 1866.  I do know Leonor was older by a few years than Antonio.  I have searched almost all of the baptism records for a Leonor and the only one I found was Leonor in 1893.  I know her parents were not married.  Family stories say her aunt raised her.  Since I am unable to read the document I can’t really figure out if this is her or not.
 
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Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 12:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] ancestor of Linda Jardin
 
Hi Linda,
 
I don't know if you found your ancestor, but the person in the record is a distant relative to me.
 
If you think your ancestors are from Terceira, you should also get the Family Finder DNA test for additional leads as to who might be your living relatives.
 
Interestingly, this person has one ancestor born in Brasil.
 
To help determine whether you found the right ancestor, what information do you have that lead you to think you found the right one here? What is her full name? If you found the right ancestor, it should match to someone in the record.
 
You mention she was abandoned and this person was not. At least, not immediately. She was not an exposta, but her parents are not married, as you probably noticed.
 
 

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