Thank you for the information. I'm just starting out, so I'm really wasn't sure what I should be doing.
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > Cathy B, > > The Azores GenWeb has resources to help you "read" the records. But that's > not your problem. You need your freguesia (village). No one on this list > will help you until you know FOR SURE what your freguesia (village) is. > Many people on this list who help out are working and not retired. We don't > want to waste anyone's time. > > The Azores GenWeb also has resources to help you find your freguesia too! > http://goo.gl/ywiW4F > > Start with that. Find your immigrants' deaths in America, their > obituaries, their naturalization, etc, etc. Somewhere, it will turn up the > freguesia. Knowing Sao Miguel isn't good enough. Everything is organized on > the village level. > > It will take some time to hunt down the things suggested in the link > above. It's not like it is on TV, where the producers contact the > researchers a year before and they put it on TV and make it look like it > all happened in a couple of weeks. It takes them about a year, and a couple > of the celebrities have taken 2 years. However, those shows are looking for > a line that is TV worthy - find a long line of common peasants wouldn't > make for entertaining television. They find stuff out in a couple of > months, but it may not be that juicy story they are after. > > Good luck, > > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das > Tainhas, Achada > > -- > 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.
