Oh wow I came to the right place!!! I am so excited! My mom told me that she has I believe a cousin still around on Oahu...let me get her in on this conversation (she is not one for the internet, but I can help through telephone conversation)....I will mention Dan and George to her...she really has come amazing pictures I would love to share as well as the pdf that I made in 2 parts (I will attempt to get it into 1 copy and I might already be floating around)...."Ferrei Furtado: The Forgotten Families of Furnas" which Earl Cabrinha had amongst his personal belongings when he passed which were sent to my mother Patricia Cabrinha and there is a personal note from Neal Cabrinha on the cover of it to Earl. It was prefaced and written by Andrew V. Rapoza in December 1996. Quite a body of work put together for the time before computer took the hold they have now with things like Ancestry.
Dano, I will email you directly about the PGSH. My mother and I want to make sure there are hours planned out when in Honolulu specifically planned for us to visit. We desperately want another copy of that book. I am working towards putting together all 4 sides of my son's family heritages for him to carry forward with him and that book is a quintessential piece to the collection. Yeah!!! Thanks everyone for making my day! On Friday, December 5, 2014 3:41:23 PM UTC-6, Valerie Dreger wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > With some guidance and perseverance, I was able to find this group online > as I was looking for the Portuguese Genealogical Society of Hawaii for an > upcoming trip to Hawaii the first week in February in which I will be > bringing my mother Patricia Cabrinha (Folk) home to her birth island, Big > Island, and where she lived most of her time there and through Pearl Harbor > in Honolulu, Oahu. > > My Uncle Earl, who passed away years ago had given us a precious book, > Portuguese Hawaiian Memories, which for some reason has gone missing from > my mother and my house. Last weekend I went to see her in Ohio and we > searched through a box of incredible finds from his collection of pictures > from growing up there and the book was no where to be found. I have gone > through my house as I have been working on the genealogy for sometime now > and just cannot find it. > > I am absolutely heartbroken. Thanks to the Facebook page Portuguese > Hawaiian Genealogy and Heritage, who pointed me in the right direction to > find the Genealogical Society as the publisher and where I could possibly > find a new copy. Please tell me that there is a shread of hope that we > might be able to find one?? > > Also, I know this is really important to me, my mother as well as this > will be the first time my brother and her grandson will be there with her. > Actually us all together as one. I have been the only one lucky enough to > have traveled there with her. There is so much information we have as > someone in the extended family actually traced the family back to > approximately 1512 with a story narrative and left it among my Uncle's > belongings, as well as this collection of amazing pictures. And we, of > course, would like to collect more information, meet others, if we could > stop by...and she is hoping to go by a few of her old "stomping grounds' > one of which is her grandpa's in Kona. > > We will be on Oahu landing in the morning of 2/7 and flying back out at > night on 2/10. If someone could get back to me it would be greatly > appreciated. If anyone wants any information I have I have a tree that I > am building on Ancestry (have not even gotten CLOSE to entering all the > data I have from the book my Uncle had in his things, but have a pdf > already scanned of it). > > My mother is besides herself with Joy to come home...and so am I. This is > a bucket list item for her. She is a breast cancer survivor, had a hip > replacement in September..survived Pearl Harbor which I know some of you on > this page can relate in one way or another...she is my hero...and we are > coming home. > > Mahalo nui loa > > Valerie > > > -- 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.
