Helen, Thank you for your good wishes! I am still trying to absorb that she is found and that I found the family. There are a lot of smiles around my house this week.
Dave On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:25 PM, hisalv via Azores Genealogy < [email protected]> wrote: > Dave > I'm so happy for you. I remember your first e-mail to me in Jan. 2009 > asking if I knew a Velma Cotta. Sorry I couldn't help. This site is so > amazing with so many really good researcher. Eric, wow!. When you get > further along, maybe we can find our connection. > > Good Luck, > > Helen Salvador > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Worman <[email protected]> > To: Azores <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, Oct 28, 2015 9:23 am > Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Velma Cotta > > 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.
