That is great Cheri. Hooray for you... Now if I could do that well that would be great to. Oh well not enough information yet. Boo Hoo.
On Thursday, August 7, 2014 2:11 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: 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. -- 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.
