Thanks so much to everyone who contributed on this! What an amazing story this tells!
On Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 12:11:54 AM UTC-4, Laura Flanagan wrote: > > I am researching what I believe to be a common ancestor between two people > predicted to be 3rd cousins to me through dna testing. > > For the life of me, I cannot read this record. It is located in the > Mosteiros, Sao Miguel baptism book for 1802-1826 at page 167, bottom of the > page. > > The index states it is the baptism record of Balbina, daughter of Manuel > Pereira and Antonia Vicencia (unsure of correct spelling). This is > definitely the person I am looking for, as I have located the baptism > records of all of her children, and they indicate maternal grandparents to > be Manuel Pereira and Antonia Vicencia, of Bretanha. > > This record seems to indicate mutliple parents and grandparents, and I > cannot locate the date of birth. The recording of this baptism doesn't > make sense for the age I believe Balbina to be, if she were to be born near > to this recording. This would make Balbina only 14 at the time of the > birth of her eldest child. I guess it's possible, but I think I am missing > something because I cannot read the nuansances of the record. Is this an > adoption? I am stumped. > > > > -- 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.
