Hello Roberto. My mothers family is from Santa Barbara, with the last name of da Costa. Most if not all the family used the name of Manuel Machado da Costa, other names in the family included Melo, Cardozo, d'Azevedo, Coelho, Bras, Goncalves Cota to name a few. all from Santa Barbara Terceira. Thank you Bob Camacho
Researching the Island of Terceira for da Costa, Evangelho, Pacheco, Ferriera Researching the Island of Graciosa for Reis Researching the Island of Madeira for Camacho Researching Brazil for Evangelho In a message dated 4/26/2014 8:21:33 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, rve...@gmail.com writes: Hello, I am searching for the Families Machado Velho, Mendes, Ferreira da Costa, Cardozo da Rocha, Cardoso da Rocha and Cardoso Velho in the old Parish of Santa Barbara - what is today Serreta, Doze Ribeiras, Santa Barbara and Cinco Ribeiras. (Estou procurando/a procurar pelas Familias Machado Velho, Mendes, Ferreira da Costa, Cardozo da Rocha, Cardoso da Rocha e Cardoso Velho na antiga Freguesia/Paroquia de Santa Barbara - ilha terceira - no que hoje sao as freguesias de Serreta, Doze Ribeiras, Santa Barbara e Cinco Ribeiras). My newer information is the death of the mother of my great-grandfather in Canada De Nossa Senhora d'Ajuda, Santa Barbara, in 1909. In 1875 she was living in Rua dos Pocos - Santa Barbara, with her son Antonio Machado Velho - my greatgrandfather - where all this research started. I have a note in a Marriage Certificate telling about the death of her daugther in 1945 - but this is not available on internet. My oldest information is related to all the families I quoted before and today I have information on the marriages - 4 of them - happening in between 1781 and 1794: - Luiz Ignacio Mendes and Maria Josefa - 1781 - Francisco Machado Velho and Francisca Mariana - 1782 - Raimundo Ferreira da Costa and Maria Roza - 1794 - Sebastiao Jose da Costa and Anna Joaquina - 1793. I also know that the sons of Raimundo and Sebastiao were connected in 4th degree in blood. Does anyone recognize someone you have records or had seen before on your researches ? Also would like to ask: - Do you know if any person can get a death certificate just going to the Conservatoria ? I want to try to ask that one of 1945 quoted on top. Do you know to which one I would to address in Terceira ? One in Santa Barbara or in Angra do Heroismo ? - Do you know if all the archives of the Church in Santa Barbara are available on the Cultura Azores website ? Is there any other kind of archives that could provide information about Santa Barbara, like Certificates of Properties - houses or some kind of School, or any other thing was being recorded in archives ? - I tried to find the Archives in Universidade do Minho, that some people quoted in the group, but I cannot find archives for Terceira. Are there any ? - Are there any other archives for Terceira or the region of Santa Barbara that I could look for ? - I have used the "Rois/Confessados" list available in Cultura Azores for Santa Barbara - and that gave me a lot of information. I am thinking of turning that list (mainly a Census of all Santa Barbara made by the priest in 1875) in a listed - searchable - pdf file. Does anyone has interest on that ? Do you know where I could publish that so people could use it ? Cultura Azores receives submissions ? - Does anyone has a text or pdf searchable version of the index of Marriages available to Santa Barbara ? It is not possible search names in the images available. I started to decompose that set of marriages in families, in case someone has interest. - I believed that the name Machado Velho disappeared in Santa Barbara because my great-grandfather went to Brazil, his brother died early without sons/daughters and their 2 other sisters just either did not get married or changed their surnames to the ones of their husbands. Do you know any way I could track the sisters ? I could not find a marriage certificate to them in the index of Santa Barbara - one is called Angelica (and there is just one Angelica, not the one I am searching) and the other one Maria (as you know, 40% of the women getting married by that time). - Anyone knows if people asking for passports in Terceira would have them issued also in Terceira ? And then the boats to Brazil and United States were leaving Terceira or some other Island nearby ? - Does anyone has a map that tell the names of streets in Santa Barbara ? Google maps has still few and a reconstruct some by google maps street view walking through them but I could not find several - also it is not clear the limit of them, as they bifurcate sometimes. I also would like to tell anyone that is searching information about Sao Bartolomeu, Santa Barbara (the old parish - including Cinco Ribeiras) and Doze Ribeiras (the old Parish - including Serreta) that there is an article from Jose Avelino Rocha dos Santos that describes the "Enxurrada de 1813" in the parishes above. It tells information about people that died, list people that have their properties destroyed and have sometimes information about ladies that were already widow. It is available here: https://repositorio.uac.pt/handle/10400.3/344 If anyone has an intersection of interest in such names on top, please let me know and I would love to interchange some information. Thank you in advance for any information, and sorry for such long email, (Obrigado de antemao por qualquer informacao), Roberto Machado Velho Born in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil Living in Lisbon - Portugal. -- 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+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com_ (mailto:azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com) . 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