I have the book you are refering to. Let me know what to look at. Eliseu Pacheco da Silva
No dia 07/08/2014, às 01:01, A Faria <[email protected]> escreveu: > Doug I am unable to identify anyone from the Silveira line in Graciosa that > traces to the Alentejo region I don't have access to the source document that > is quoted as containing the information. The people that I have read make > this claim state they extracted the information from the Nobililario da Ilha > Terceira written by Eduardo de Campos de Castro de Azevedo Soares edited by > Livraria Fernando Machado in 1944. > > Antonio > >> On Tuesday, August 5, 2014 11:38:32 PM UTC-7, Doug da Rocha Holmes wrote: >> Antonio and Tomas, >> >> I don't think I heard about that non-Flemish Silveira line from Graciosa. >> Can you identify anyone from that line? >> >> I think I remember a nobleman appearing in the 1700s in Terceira and used >> Sapo to see who his ancestors are. Going by memory, I think I remember he >> had Silveira from the continent, but this person didn't use Silveira in the >> Azores - just happened to be surnames in his tree. >> >> My father's Y-DNA is showing more British Isles matches than anything else - >> at least that's what I see when fumbling my way through the various SNPs in >> the Y tools they have at FTDNA. >> >> So I think this Celt theory and accompanying facts seems to hold water. Of >> course, no telling where we get specific features, but blue eyes are common >> in the Azores. In my father's ancestry we have blondes, red heads, very tall >> people, and that comes from both Pico and Terceira sides. But we also have >> plenty of the more common features of the Portuguese. >> >> I might not remember correctly now, but my father's late first cousin, Dr. >> Jose Leal Armas (Armas from Flores and Leal from Pico) said his mother was >> blonde and was a teacher in Sao Mateus da Calheta (Terceira). She would be >> my father's aunt. I think he said that when she taught school in Sao Mateus, >> there were a whole lot of children with blonde hair - maybe even most but >> that's where I'm not sure now, since he told me this about 20 years ago. >> >> So what I found interesting from Tomas is that the Portuguese of Northern >> Portugal might not all be influenced by the Visigoths, but also the Celts >> and I don't recall hearing that part before. The Germanic Visigoths were >> surely responsible for the Northern European features of many pioneer >> families of the Azores. But now we can add the Celts to that. >> >> Doug da Rocha Holmes >> Pico & Terceira Genealogist >> ============================================= >> Get ready for NFL Fantasy Football and join me in the newly created Azores >> Genealogist League. Still looking for more participants. >> Write me here for more info: [email protected] >> ============================================= >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Family Finder Matches to the British >> Isles and Ireland >> From: A Faria <[email protected]> >> Date: Tue, August 05, 2014 10:10 pm >> To: [email protected] >> >> Hi Tomas >> >> My understanding regarding the Silveira surname in the Azores is that all >> the lines except one on the island of Graciosa are believed to have >> originated from the Flemish. The one line from Graciosa is believed to have >> originated in the Alentejo region of mainland Portugal and traces from Old >> Portuguese Nobility. >> >> Antonio > > -- > 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. -- 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.
