I am so happy this morning :) 14 years ago, I stopped going to the Family History Center because my arthritis worsened. I could no longer manipulate the microfilm readers. So, I stopped working on my Azorean lines and I waited for the records to come online...some day.
This left me with several holes in my Pacheco research. While I was able to go beyond my Gr Gr Grandparents, I didn't find Jacinto Pacheco or Anna Jacinta de Mello's baptismals, their marriage record, the baptismal for their oldest son, Antonio Pacheco, or the death record for Jacinto which should have been sometime between 1876-1882 when they left for Hawaii. I had all the other children from Manoel in 1863 to Theodoro in 1876 (all born in Anna's village, Achada), but Antonio was missing in action. A few months ago, I found Anna's baptismals in Achada where I expected it to be. It was a couple years later than I had thought I would find it. Though, this helped me pinpoint a date range for their marriage, I found nothing. I didn't find Antonio baptismal or Jacinto's obito either. Last night, the marriage records for Fenais da Vera Cruz (Ajuda) went online and the book I needed was indexed. This is Jacinto's village. While I didn't have his baptismal, I had many records for his family in this area. And...bingo! I found my great great grandparents. There was one slight surprise. Instead of being record as Jacinto Pacheco or Jacinto Pacheco Grande (some of the family added Grande) he was under Jacinto Pacheco Ferreira (Ferreira being his mother's surname). I know have a gap between their marriage in 1856 and Manoel's birth in 1863. Antonio should be somewhere in that gap and maybe another child as that is 7 years. What I am hoping is that because I was not looking for a Pacheco Ferreira I might have overlooked it. At least now I have a range of years and I have something to go on. And maybe then I can find Jacinto's obito. Yeah! -- 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.
