Yay, Mel!
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:43 AM, IslandRoutes < [email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- 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.
