Maybe it had something to do with Portuguese coloniamism in Africa? 2015-07-14 10:49 GMT+01:00 nancy jean baptiste <[email protected]>:
> I don't know anything about that time period and tattoo's but since > there's no "w" in Portuguese maybe it was a different symbol or an English > connection. > > Nancy Jean > > ------------------------------ > Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 14:31:45 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Portuguese Women and Tattoos (early 1900s) > > > Another researcher asked me about something that I'd never seen before, so > I thought I'd ask here. His female ancestors was born in 1885 and migrated > to Hawaii with her parents. She had a tattoo on her arm which looks like w > w and then 3 or 4 symbols. > > I'm curious if anyone has seen this before with Portuguese women from that > period? Other than the suggestions that it was initials of some sort (the > w definitely was...but the others look more like symbols), we can't come up > with any specific reason for the tattoos. > > I've been working with Portuguese Hawaiian genealogy for 25 years and not > once has anyone told me their female ancestors born in the 1800s had a > tattoo. > > Any ideas if it does represent anything? > Thanks! > > -- > 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.
