Hello Doug, I have written that exactly, but probably with different words in one of the latest posts about this issue. Maybe the post was to long and some got scared to read it [?] . I mentioned we have spoke before through your website, some years ago when I was starting my roots' investigation. I live here Doug, in Azores and I believe for some non residents this hole system may be quite confusing.
As CCA is organizing the filters at their website using the civil and actual system, there are a few Civil Parishes, exactly as Joao Ventura already explained, they must use their official names, and in this case there are a few called Matriz (adopted from the leading church, where it stands today), in Azores. Because of that and because CCA had a few other places (Catholic Parish Names) mentioning Matriz, as what they were in the past, as you just said, some people will easily be confused, specially those who know very little about the geographic and territorial organization of Azores, today AND in the past. If I see Matriz mentioned, in a Freguesia that has another name, Example, Mae de Deus, Povoacao, it makes no difference to me, but yes its confusing to who doesn't know why or where. >From what I have learned now, as you say, its much easier to know what Island our ancestors came from, then the council. I have checked several websites, with archives and documents related to genealogy and not only, where the the system is indexed, allowing researchers to search for NAMES or PLACES, etc. The Government of Madeira seams to be doing a good effort going into this direction, you can check it here http://www.arquivo-madeira.org/pesquisa/baptismo/ . One thing a few already have mentioned is that the majority of the US research websites, like acenstry.com and many more, are PAYED services. CCA is not, but these systems, whether good or not so good, have costs and are being given free access for free. I am connected to computer/networking business, and I have a good idea of how much time, money and resources, these online archives may take to ho ever is responsible for it, and because I have spent many hours in Ponta Delgada, reading record books, I am quite happy, and I can imagine you all who do not live here, with what they have now. About consistency, yes I agree with Cheri and others, the filters should follow only one criteria and I think they are fixing that. PS: Doug, I love the old pictures in your website, I'm a big fan of such priceless, also, records. Images of our ancestors, for those who are lucky to have them, are a "Cherry of top of the cake" for all genealogists! Cheers to all, On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 4:01 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ricardo, > > You wrote under the subject CCA, but I am answering about the definition > of matriz, so am answering under this subject. > > In case it was not previously explained, "matriz" is referring to the main > church, aka mother church, for what in Portugal they call a "concelho" > which could be translated to our county system here. > > For example, the matriz church for the "concelho" of Sao Roque, island of > Pico is the church in Sao Roque. There are four other churches in that > concelho, but the church in Sao Roque is the mother church of the group. > > The matriz church for the concelho of Lajes, island of Pico is called > Santissima Trindade. Again, there are four other churches in that concelho. > > Every concelho has a matriz. And there is only one matriz for one > concelho, with the exception of the mistake made for Sao Sebastiao, > Terceira - read Guill's explanation in his history book, vol. 5. > > I don't know if they do that type of grouping in the USA Catholic > churches, but it makes no difference. That's how they do it in Portugal, so > that's all you need to know to do research and find your way through the > records as a genealogist. > > Doug da Rocha Holmes > Sacramento, California > Pico & Terceira Genealogist > 916-550-1618 > www.dholmes.com > > > -- > 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. > -- Ricardo Chaves -- 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.
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