Maria Roque, And I can put George Washington, Pope Francis, and Lucille Ball in my tree and post it online. It doesn't make it true.
I know it seems that I'm being a bit facetious, but you really have to evaluate the source. The true source is what we call the primary source. That's the document that is generated at the time of the event. Like a birth certificate which verifies the birth date, a marriage certificate verifying the marriage date. Secondary sources are things generated after the event or things gleaned from a primary source. Many times, you need 2 or 3 of these to agree with each other. Portuguese research uses the baptism records as a secondary source for the birth record. We don't have the luxury of trying to find 2 or 3 other sources to verify the birth date. But if the person died within the last 100 years or so, we can order their death certificate and get the death date (primary source) and get the birth date (secondary source) from the death record. So until you can find the true source of the name (which document it is coming from), no one is going to be able to tell you with any type of confidence what that name is. It's going to be a bunch of guesses. Someone has seen the original record and transcribed it. Who is that transcriber? How good are that at transcribing? Reading Portuguese records? Dealing with the paleography? I've seen some really poor jobs done by Ancestry (which I was told was outsourced). American censuses with the last name of Turner (quite common) and written Turner as clear as day on the census which were transcribed completely wrong. There are also whole areas in the midwest part of the United States that migrated west from Indiana. How was that transcribed by the Ancestry folks? As India, another country. So I went to the actual source and saw that all these people came from the state of Indiana and not the country of India. The Ancestry transcribers can also mess up Iowa with Indiana as state abbreviations changed over time. The Ancestry transcribers apparently were not trained in historic place name abbreviations. Hope this illustrates why going to the actual source is so important in research. 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
