Hi David,
It looks like the Livro do Priorado, where the priests used to write down the obligations (messes mostly) the dead or their family paid for to the church. There was also a kind of fraternities who took care of the very poor. Sometimes the fraternity owed a certain number of graves in the holy soil of the church where their “associates” would be buried… Eliseu Pacheco da Silva Researching Açores (São Miguel and Graciosa) and Alentejo ( <http://gw.geneanet.org/eliseumanuel> http://gw.geneanet.org/eliseumanuel ) -- 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.
