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 [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
