Doug Is you article "Gateways to Royalty" written in English or Portuguese?
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:43 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Freddy, > > Maybe you got some private replies, but I know many people would love to > have your luck in having some ancestors so well documented as to go back > over a thousand years. > > You already got some help with the Minho website. Just verify each record > as you go, because it's full of bad assumptions as to parentage, especially > in some of the oldest generations on Faial in Cedros and places where they > have only baptisms, but no marriages to support them. Some lines are just > wishful thinking. > > John Raposo quoted some of your ancestry from the book by Forjaz and > Mendes about the four islands in the Horta district. I don't know whether > that has some additional links I haven't found myself. But much of that is > also mentioned in an older nobility book about Faial families, called > Familias Faialenses. That is available online these days - all in > Portuguese, of course, but I believe you are fluent in that. > > For the oldest generations beyond the Azores, turn to Felgueiras Gayo, a > genealogist from the 1700s, if I recall. He wrote many volumes on the noble > families of Portugal and you can get back to all the European royalty > there. It might also be online. > > But to answer your exact question, yes you have documented ancestral lines > that go back to Guilherme da Silveira of Flanders (Willem van der Hagen). > It comes from your Vilalobos line, that branches off to Marramaque and then > to Willem vdH. > > If you follow your Peixoto lines, you will find they get back to some > Kings of Aragon. > On your Carvalho line, it goes back to more kings of Navarre, Leon and > elsewhere. > > I once wrote an article called Gateways to Royalty and I think I have some > additional specifics: > www.dholmes.com/articles.html > > That will occupy at least the next 6 months of your free time. :-) > > Boa sorte. > > Doug da Rocha Holmes > Sacramento, California > Pico & Terceira Genealogist > 916-550-1618 > www.dholmes.com > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Francisco da Silveira Villalobos descendant > of King William I of England ? > From: Freddy Garcia <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, November 13, 2013 4:38 pm > To: [email protected] > > Trying to find the line with my Gr Gr Gr Grandfather Francisco da Silveira > Villalobos born 19 April 1791 ancestor of King William I of England, and > then there's is a possible connection with > Willem van der Haegen , any help would be great, thanks, Freddy > > -- > 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.
