You are so right, John! I have many families where the boys took Mom's surname, for whatever reason! In my greatgrandma's family all of her male sibs took Lemos for their surname and it took me 3 generations back to see where the Lemos came from!
Rosemarie [email protected] Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:37 AM, John Vasconcelos <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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