Thanks Joe - you guys are terrific! I wish I had found this message forum long ago. I've been getting help from João Ventura on translations, and finding more about my heritage.
On Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 2:00:40 PM UTC-7, joe m wrote: > > Not sure if you have Alexandre's birth. > > http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SJR-CH-TOPO-B-1880-1889/SJR-CH-TOPO-B-1880-1889_item1/P92.html > . > > > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 9:03 PM, Eric Souza <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> 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] <javascript:>> >>> 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] <javascript:> >>> >>> 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] <javascript:>. >>> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
