I have used George Pacheco and Joao Ventura so I would recommend them
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike S, > > Let me be perfectly honest with you. It's not going to happen by > Christmas. You probably would have had to start in January to make it > happen. > > Even on "Who Do You Think You Are?" it takes up to 2 years for some of the > celebrities to get the research in to create the episode. > > You most likely aren't going to find one genealogist to do it all. You > would need to find a genealogist that would know about New England records > and those of immigrants. You need to be very careful about this. I know a > man who spent $1200 USD hiring a researcher to look for his very common > Manuel da Silva. He got back a report that pretty much looked at Ancestry > sources and then recommended that he do a DNA test. The clincher? That > researcher came to California, found me at a genealogy show, and asked me > what to do. I wasn't very nice. I told her as a paid researcher she needed > to find his family. I wasn't being paid to find his family. She wanted me > to tell her what to do so she could collect the fee. So she types up a > report to him, he finds me and asks for help. And the report quotes > things from the Azores GenWeb that Kathy Cardoza and I wrote! He could > have got that for free by being on this list! > > Once you get the village (via your paid researcher and if they find the > correct ancestor for you), you would need to hire a researcher that does > Portugal and Azores. You can find them all over the Internet that claim > they can do it. There are a few on this list (and they may contact you > privately). I'd use those, since they do contribute to this list and have > a good track record. A list of the researchers can be found on the Azores > GenWeb here: http://goo.gl/I7KYns > > Good luck, > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das > Tainhas, Achada > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
