They are in the last pages for the years you are looking at.
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Bremen <[email protected]> wrote: > would you please inform the link for that index? > Thank you > > > On Friday, January 17, 2014 10:43:41 AM UTC-2, Eileen Leite wrote: >> >> Got your attention, didn’t I? haha. Read on: there are no computer >> databases, but still, you can save hours of searching. >> >> >> >> I made these notes for myself several years ago, when I was doing >> microfilm research. It’s a bit long, but worth it if it helps! >> >> >> >> Some of the Ponta Garca NS da Piedade church records were indexed by >> devoted souls. Even so , the indexes can be very tricky to figure out. >> These are the old indexes, handwritten in the church books, not modern >> searchable databases! As delighted as I was to find this time-saving >> blessing, it was very frustrating figuring out how to use the index to find >> the actual record. It made me crazy to see a baby of ‘my’ couple in the >> index and not be able to find the full record. >> >> >> >> I have found indexes in the back of volumes of records, so know that they >> apply to the previous pages, not the following. If a volume has records >> covering several years, there may be an index for each year, tucked in >> after that year, or the index may well cover several years. So go to the >> end of the year and then to the back of the book. An index may only be a >> couple of pages and can be easy to miss. One way to tell an index is, that >> the records themselves leave a clear margin on the sides, but the index >> lists names on the left. >> >> >> >> The baptismal indexes I’ve found list first names in the left column, >> then parents’ names, and then page number where the record should be >> found. Some priests numbered each baptism for the year in the book, but >> the indexes I’ve seen always give the page number, not the baptismal >> number. Sometimes there is a V after the number, which means on the left >> hand page, which can mean on the opposite page to the numbered one or >> sometimes on the next page. Each page isn’t numbered, rather as you turn >> the pages the number in the upper right hand corner of the right page goes >> up by one with each turn. >> >> >> >> Some lists start all parents’ names with “de”, meaning “(child) of”. >> That was annoying and made it harder for me to find the name I was looking >> for! The parents’ names are frequently abbreviated. If you are new at >> this, go carefully and keep an open mind. If you like to scan for a >> particular name, looking for its shape, don’t. Your eye might miss it. >> Read every line carefully. J with a tiny superscript o or e, is Joao or >> Jose; Medeiros might be Med or just M with a superscript d. So “Joao de >> Medeiros” might be written as “Jo dMed”. (The formatting might not come >> through, but I think you have the idea.) and of course you all know that >> names are flexible, especially for the women. Also remember that numbers >> may not be shaped like you would today and ink fades so what appears to be >> a “3” may be an “8”. Remain open minded! >> >> >> >> Baptisms are indexed by the babies’ first names, first in alphabetical >> order, then in the order they appear in the book. This can be very >> helpful. There is also a little “Whoops” list at the end of the index >> giving names the priest skipped. Knowing the names are in order can be >> helpful as the page numbers in the index are sometimes (make that, >> frequently) wrong. I have found more than one record a page or two after >> the number in the index. Also, I think the wonderful priest who went >> through and indexed one book might have gotten cross eyed and read the >> wrong line on his notes. Like buttoning your sweater wrong, one misread >> page number can put the next 6 names off. I always note the entries two or >> three before and after my family name. If I can’t find my baptism, I’ll >> look for the one after it. If I find it, I know that my Antonio is the one >> before it, and just go back until I find him. >> >> >> >> One name was the fifth from the last Maria for the year. I couldn’t find >> her! I started with the last record and went back , looking at the names >> in the margin, carefully counting each Maria baptized. I found the five >> after her and the one before her, and so knew she had to be between them, >> and started reading all the records there with great care. Ah ha! The name >> in the margin was so faint and blurred that it didn’t look like Maria. If I >> had not narrowed down the search, it would have taken me much miserable eye >> strain in that very hard to read, very poor quality microfilm, to find that >> child. >> >> >> >> May your searching be successful! >> >> >> >> Eileen Leite >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > -- > 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. 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