What may even be more mind boggling is that in some rare cases, a male child may take his mother's surname. Cases in which this may happen may include: 1) families in which there were no male children born in the previous generation, 2) for inheritance reasons where the mother's line is wealthy and has property and is more prominent (Morgado comes to mind-some native speaker should chime in here). This happened several times in my family tree> John Vasconcelos
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Maria Lima <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm glad you confirmed NOT to add father's surname . Ugh- that is so hard > to do because there's so many with the same first name- Maria"s. I recently > did that on family search so I'll have to go back and delete those last > names. Thank you for the reminder > > Maria Elena > > On Feb 24, 2015, at 10:41 AM, Rosemarie Capodicci <[email protected]> > wrote: > > For those new to Portuguese research and entering names into your > genealogy program do not give the girls their Father's surname! As Cheri > stated, there is a time when there is no surname given in the documents and > you can't do as we do in this country and give the girls their Dad's > surname. In some time periods in the Azores, the girls/ladies are just > listed as Maria de Jesus, daughter of so-and-so or Maria de Jesus, wife of > so-and-so. It does make it difficult, especially when they oft times change > their religious name in midstream! It's either that or the Priest confuses > Maria de Jesus with her Mom's name of Maria de Sao Jose! It also happens > with the men sometimes. My Manuel Ignacio de Souza was only Manuel Ignacio > on most of his children's baptism's. My Jorge Jose Reis only had Reis > listed on one of his children's baptismal records and his death record! So, > the rule is--Don't Assume Anything!! > > > Rosemarie > [email protected] > Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, > Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 7:35 AM, Annie Carvalho <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> I'm not quite sure the way I'm supposed to list some of my Portuguese >> names on ancestry.com >> >> Example: >> >> Maria de Jesus de Freitas? >> >> What is the surname? de Freitas? Freitas? >> >> Do I list her as >> >> (First Name) Maria de Jesus de (Surname) Freitas ??? >> >> Can someone tell me what is correct? >> Thanks! >> Annie >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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.
