This is amazing - so glad I found this forum! Just emailed Marie. I'm doing lots of my research on Ancestry - link to family tree there is http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/18636350/family?usePUBJs=true
Thank you all for your help, cousins!! :) - Eric On Friday, March 18, 2016 at 4:40:05 PM UTC-7, Azoreanno wrote: > > I was just gona mention the same :) > > Marie I couldn't remember who had a connection to this line but I do know > lol > > Eric by the way I am De Sousa Borba also :) > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 18, 2016, at 7:30 PM, Marie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Eric: > > Contact me off the group. I have information on several generations back > from your great grandfather from Topo. Our families connect with the De > Sousa de Borba line in the late 1700's. > > Marie Borba Volbeda > [email protected] > > Researching Topo, Sao Jorge > > On Friday, March 18, 2016 at 11:10:20 AM UTC-7, Eric Souza wrote: > >> I'm researching my genealogy, and trying to find information about my >> great-grandfather, Alexander Souza. >> >> We believe Alexander Souza was born on São Jorge in early 1883 (possibly >> late 1882?). He immigrated to the San Francisco Bay Area (don't know the >> year), and lived in Sausalito, CA. He married Mary Catan Mancebo on May 6, >> 1907, and they had my grandfather, Edward Souza, in 1909. Alex died on >> March 13, 1915, in Sausalito. Mary died shortly after, and my grandfather >> never knew any other details about his father. Other documents show he may >> also have been known as Alexander Souza Borba or Alexander S Borba ... is >> it accurate that the last name would be Paternal-Maternal, so Souza as the >> father's paternal surname and Borba as the mother's paternal surname? >> >> We don't know the town he is from, or any information about other >> relatives. I looked through the parish baptism records here on the >> CulturaAcores site >> <http://www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt/ig/registos/?serie=0&ilha=4&concelho=20>. >> >> Unfortunately I didn't find any records that looked like they could be him. >> >> Any advice for how to further research this would be great! I've been in >> touch with the Star of the Sea parish in Sausalito, and the Portuguese Hall >> in Sausalito, but so far, no luck. >> >> Thanks, >> Eric Souza >> [email protected] >> Skype: ericcsouza >> >> -- > 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 https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
