The given name João is not abbreviated on the record, the last letter 'o' is a stylized tilde, not the letter A for Alvares. Miz is Martins.
So I read it as João Martins. Manoel Em sexta-feira, 22 de novembro de 2013 15h44min46s UTC-2, Cheri Mello escreveu: > > 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.
