Hi Kathy, I'm just curious if you are the kathleen Cardoza that I match on family finder does that line trace to Prainha Pico?
Antonio Faria On Thursday, June 5, 2014 1:34:52 PM UTC-7, Kathy Cardoza wrote: > > I thought I’d share something with the list, and maybe help someone along > the way …… We are always told to keep an open mind in genealogy, don’t have > preconceptions, and investigate every possibility in our search for the > truth. That lesson was brought home to me recently. > > As background, my 3GG were Francisco Pereira da Rosa and Maria Delfina who > married and had their children in Flamengos, Faial. I found 8 children for > them as well as followed their ancestors back years ago. Child #1 was my > 2GG, Francisco Pereira da Rosa (we’ll call him Frank Jr.). More girls, then > Child #4 was a Manuel (we’ll call him Manuel #1). The rest were girls until > you got to child #8, another Manuel (we’ll call him Manuel #2). This family > emigrated to Washington Twp., Alameda Co. California and I have documented > them and their children forward in time. I had “assumed” all these years, > that Manuel #1 had died as a child or infant because Manuel #2 had married > in CA and had 10 kids ….. I don’t think I ever searched for his obito. So, > fast forward to a couple of days ago ……. > > I was contacted by another researcher who, in the process of checking out > a match on FTDNA, realized that her match was related to my Rosa family. I > was skeptical at first because I thought this Manuel had died early and > didn’t ever have a family. Anyway, to shorten this story, after a search on > Ancestry, I found some descendants of this Manuel #1. None of these people > knew where Manuel was from or anything about his lineage. But, among their > sources, were obituaries on Manuel #1 and his siblings listed, including > married names, all matched up to my family!! Now, my 2GG, Frank Jr., always > used Rosa or later, Rose, as their surname as did Manuel #2….. all Roses. > This newfound Manuel #1 used the name of Rodgers, Manuel Pereira Rodgers, > and all his descendants are Rodgers, also! Now this “new” Manuel was > originally know as Manuel Pereira Rosa, just like his younger brother, > Manuel #2. He settled and lived in Petaluma, Sonoma Co., CA while his other > two brothers lived in Centerville and Alvarado in Alameda Co. > > Another little interesting tidbit here is that some years ago, I > interviewed an older cousin of my grandmother. She was 90 years old then > but she told me there were some brothers who kept using Rosa and some that > used Rodgers. I investigated that, halfheartedly because, remember the two > brothers I knew of, used Rosa and the third one I had assumed to die early. > Hmmph! Well, I was sure wrong and now have a whole additional branch to my > Family Tree! > > So, the moral of this little story is NOT to make assumptions. Usually > when there are more than two children born in a family with the same given > name, it means the first one died early. But, not always! It seems crazy to > me that that this family named two children both Manuel, but then they also > named two of their daughters Maria Delfina! And they both lived, married, > and had kids. So, you just never know! And, DNA does work and IS helpful! > If you haven’t submitted yours yet, get ‘er done! You never know what > connections you might find. > > Kathy > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Visit the Azores GenWeb Project: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~azrwgw/index.html > > Climb my Family Tree: > http://www.kathys-place.com/index.html > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > -- 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.
