Cheri I definitely see an "a" after "Jo" and MZ, so I would say João MZ.
Sent from my iPad > On Nov 22, 2013, at 12:44 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > > The marriage actually begins on the bottom of the previous page. My question > is the groom's father at the top of this page: > http://goo.gl/lHsZgl > Line 2, at the end. > > I've got that Manuel Furtado de Mendonca married Maria d'Aguiar on 7 Nov 1700 > in Achada. I've got Maria as the daughter of Agostinho d'Aguiar and Anna de > Paiva (who will become the groom's 2nd wife after the respective spouses > die). I've got both Canto's and Rodrigo Rodrigues' handwritten notes on this > marriage. Both agree that the father of the groom is Joao. I'm not sure if > Joao is abbreviated as J.o or not. It's the last name that I'm after. And > the groom's father is from Achadinha. > > Now the example of the black zone. When we used microfilm, we sometimes came > to areas that were completely blacked out. Or sometimes, just the names were > blacked out. Back in the day, a wash or solution was put on the paper to > enhance the readability of the records. When the Genealogy Society of Utah > (GSU - today it's Family Search) went to film the records, the camera > couldn't see through residue left behind. So it filmed as a black zone. But > if you looked at the original, it wasn't blacked out. > > The example above shows what digitizing did to those black zones. It's like > we are reading through the solution. So if you had a record that was in the > black zone, you may be able to read them online now. > > As for what the solution or wash was made out of? I don't know. Joao > Ventura, archivist, would know, as I'm sure he studied about that in college > in one of his course about record preservation. > > 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.
