Thanks for all the help. Barb
On Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 9:02:59 PM UTC-7, Cheri Mello wrote: > > I know "Rua" is street. The others, such as "Canada" I think of avenue, > place, circle, drive, parkway. A thing that designates a row of houses. > I've never tried to translate it. My rule is I translate into English the > word Azores (instead of Açores), as any map I buy in America says Azores. > (Others would beg to differ and list Açores in their genealogy program). > Once I'm inside the borders, I start using Portuguese. The island names are > in Portuguese (Terceira, São Miguel), the freguesias are in Portuguese, the > churches are in Portuguese, and so are the streets (if I am lucky enough to > find that information). I may look up the literal meaning, just for > curiosity's sake, but I don't use it in my genealogy program. Saying that > an ancestor was from Thin Tip, Flowers island is going too far. Most of us > list it in Portuguese, we just differ on the Azores vs Açores part. > Cheri > -- 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.
