I would like to suggest again that we must thank Vasco Cordeiro as well, the president of the Azores Regional Government .
Here's the link to the website in english: http://www.azores.gov.pt/Portal/en/principal?lang=en&area=ct Manoel Em domingo, 15 de dezembro de 2013 14h22min05s UTC-2, Cheri Mello escreveu: > > 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] <javascript:> > > 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.
