I am brand new to genealogy and have gone from no family tree to 500 people in 2 months. Most of the 500 however are not on my Portuguese side.
A big challenge for me is wrapping my brain around how names are determined and how some of the records for women have no last name. Both lines I am tracing back, at least here in California, used both "last" names individually at different times. I have also lost count of all the different spelling variations I have found. On my Martins da Costa line, I found the village, which really opened a lot of information up to me through the baptismal records. I don't have village information on the Marks Souza line (Sao Jorge) yet and the Monteiro line is my shortest. I do have a clue for Mariana Monteiro (1880-1954) in that she was somehow related to Joe Viery ( owned the Red Sails Inn and mentioned in Lawrence Oliver's Never Backward.) I look forward to sharing any information I may have and to pick the brains of the experts from time to time as well. Thanks, Mike Souza Researching: Marks, Souza, Marks Souza, Monteiro, Vaz Dinis, Martins da Costa, -- 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.
