Thanks Cheri, I believe this is the end for me, he is the only first name Balthazar 20 to 25 years back of his son born in 1707, I saw the hole period and there a lot we can't read at all!
Bottom Right, 5th record. http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMA-VP-SANTOESPIRITO-B-1671-1699/SMA-VP-SANTOESPIRITO-B-1671-1699_item1/P26.html I'm off to Death Records to see if I find him there and see at least who he married with. Cheers On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > Ricardo, > > I know Canto did his work in the latter 1800s. And Rodrigo Rodrigues did > corrections and amendments in the early 1900s. > > Take the Achada marriage index, for example. Canto created it sometime in > the late 1800s. The early Achada records are really bad - near the level > of the Santa Maria records. Canto wrote a lot of ..... where he couldn't > read or wrote partial names (M_____). Rodrigues wrote on the front of > Achada's index that he when through and corrected and amended Canto's work > and then Rodrigues wrote the date 1929. > > So I have a time line for when the books were deteriorating. And I can > see 2 genealogists just struggle with it too. > > > > 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 [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- 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.
