Congratulations! What a thrill it must be to talk with your cousin! Your mother's sisters daughter! Thank you for sharing this mystery as it unfolded. For those of us who are your cousins, there's still that mystery of "how/who/ when? Do you have a connection to the Azores yet? I know there was talk of looking at the passports. You already have your MTDNA...right? Best regards for the continued story unfolding.... I like Belmira....aka, Velma......married at 13....you have a good story there. Nancy Jean
From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Velma Cotta Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 16:43:34 -0700 To: [email protected] How wonderful! So many of us have watched this quest unfold and it is so nice to read of your success! Susan Vargas Murphy Sent from my iPhone On Oct 28, 2015, at 9:22 AM, Dave Worman <[email protected]> wrote: Success!!! Thank you to each and every one of you who have spent time searching on my behalf and to each one of you following this thread. I could not have done it without you. You are an answer to my prayers! God Bless you! I have been searching for Velma Cotta, my birth mother, for most of my adult life with no results beyond finding out her name and marriage to my birth father. Due to the help from members of this group - she has been identified and I have been able to locate and contact my actual, real 1st cousin! A child of Velma's sister! The information came in a little bit at a time but then quickly once we were pretty sure we were on the right trail. Understanding the name change from Belmira to Velma was really the first clue. Then census info, newspapers articles, tracking the people who might be the right family, finding graves, then obituaries of Velma's parents (thank you Sequoia Genealogical Society!) and then the obituary of Velma's sister. I don't have permission to name the people who actually found all this but you can find them on this thread :) They did all the important work as I have no clue. To you who have been searching, too. Keep looking and trying and I hope for your success! Thank you, Dave On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: Yeah, that's the spelling. I knew it looked a little off! 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. -- 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.
