Kathy Cardoza spent several hours redoing the Azores GenWeb pages so they have the same info as the CCA site. So we can view Sao Miguel here: http://goo.gl/Z70Ncr
It looks like they need Santo Antonio and Sao Vicente Ferreira and that will complete Ponta Delgada. They seem to do things a little inconsistently in the names (Matriz, instead of the name of the church), but yet you look in the council of Nordeste and there appears to be no Matriz. It's there, it's called Sao Jorge. We need to look both ways! Their email does say "and." But now they tell Angela they don't know. Graciosa has 4 freguesias and Santa Maria had 4 freguesias filmed, but 5 freguesias exist today. If they post those 2 islands and go back to Ribeira Grande, the order (via the Azores GenWeb - thank you Kathy!) should be: Calhetas, Fenais da Ajuda or Fenais de Vera Cruz (old name), Lomba da Maia, Maia, Pico da Pedra, Porto Formoso, Rabo de Peixe, Ribeira Grande (N.S. da Estrella is the Matriz, I think), Ribeira Grande - N. S. da Conceicao, Ribeira Seca, and is Ribeirnha part of R.Grande? So that's 10 or 11 parishes. Vila Franca do Campo has 5: Agua d'Alto, Ponta Garca, Ribeira das Tainhas, Vila Franca - Sao Miguel Arcanjo (Matriz), and Vila Franca do Campo - Sao Pedro. There's a newer freguesia called Ribeira Seca that was founded in 2002 (broke of from S.Miguel Arcanjo - the Matriz). Geez, there's one over in R.Grande called Ribeira Seca. I think they need a law that says you can't have 2 freguesias with the same name on the same island. Instead of discussing it here and how happy we are with the records, I think we should email the CCA and tell them how we appreciate all their hard work: [email protected] And while you are thanking people, you can just hit reply to this email and thank Kathy for her work on the Azores GenWeb. And as Eileen said, it used to take a very long time to work a line before digitized records. I could spend a year on just ONE ancestor. I spent 4 years tracing my immigrant ancestor, trying to find the freguesia. Today, I could probably figure out the freguesia in a month! We've come a long way!!! 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.
