Sorry, I think I might be throwing a monkey range into this but the appearance of the M is due to the letter L of the name Manuel above being carried downward. I am seeing Roiz.
Margaret On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 8:00 AM, mances <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- Margaret M Vicente -- 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.
