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On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Isabella Baltar <[email protected] > wrote: > Pam, > > Leite Vasconcellos, in his book Antroponimia Portuguesa (1928), says > "Jacobus" is a hebrew origin name. In earlier times written as Iacobizi. > You can also find Jacob or Iacobus as well. It is related to Jácome > (Giacomo in italian) and Jaime (Jayme). > > Isabella > myportuguesegen.blogspot.com > > > On Friday, November 22, 2013 9:34:50 PM UTC-5, Pam Santos wrote: >> >> So a five months ago I emailed St. Patricks church in San Francisco >> looking for a marriage in 1886. Today I finally got a response, she sent me >> a certificate. I asked her if she could scan the original and send she said >> they use to be able to scan and mail but no longer are they allowed to >> because the pages are too fragile. So I then asked her if the original >> lists the name of parents or where they were from. She said yes and gave me >> that information. I then said I am kind of stumped I have no idea who this >> Jacob as the witness. She then said well the record is in Latin and she >> didn't know latin and spelled it out. Jacobus. So I googled translated it >> which means James, which was his brother. So I have been reading church >> records in latin for spanish records for years but never came across >> Jacobus (no spanish ancestors named James) >> >> This is the 2nd marriage I have gotten from San Francisco the first >> marriage record for the year 1864!!!! In case anyone else has ancestors >> from San Francisco and in general in inquiring church records ask questions >> especially if they just give you a certificate of name and date and nothing >> on parents or where they were from. >> > -- > 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.
