Hello group, I believe i am at the end of the rope for my biggest sadness, and suspecting that the marriage of Baltazar (Balthazar) Gomes and Mariana (Marianna) Melo (Mello) somewhere between 1725-1740, is gone! In the beginning of the CCA BOOKS 1731 there are five pages missing, other I just cant read, impossible,
http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMA-VP-SANTOESPIRITO-C-1731-1751/SMA-VP-SANTOESPIRITO-C-1731-1751_item1/P3.html not to mention that the hole period of marriages 1708-1751 are (were) really in bad shape. In the periods I have been searching I found few "Balthazar" Gomes, not many, I know mine was born in 1707, I got his birth record, but I am starting to believe that these are all from the same "prole", but I might be wrong. There is a Balthazar Gomes Moura, a Balthazar Gomes Velho and a couple more I cant remember. I found in one of my Balthazar Gomes's grandson's birth record that the vicar wrote down his name as Balthazar Gomes Freitas, but having 3 of his son's birth records, death record and birth record only as Gomes an not Gomes Freitas, is confusing me quite a bit. The father of my Balthazar is also Balthazar Gomes and mother Izabel da Fonte. I will dig into the birth records, backwards, to see If I'm lucky. I found from a search on the web there is a lady that has some of these Gomes in her Genealogy, it s blog, I can't remember the site I believe she has a link there to this group so I wonder if she is here. I notice she got marriages prior to 1708, for some of these Gomes, how? I am reaching the stage where probably many of you with much more experience have been as well, what next? I wonder why Santo Espirito Marriages ends in 1708 and Birth records go up to 1671? or Vila to 1630? Thank you all -- 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]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
