Jeremy, You may be going off on a tangent here.
If you really want to pursue your method, you need to date the card. It looks like you have scanned a cabinet card. I'm not sure. Here's information on cabinet cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_card I have a book on photography for genealogy. It could be another type of card too (daguerreotype comes to mind, but I don't think so - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype). It's best to start with your ancestor: name, date, and place. Create a timeline for your ancestor (censuses, emigration/immigration), birth, marriage(s), death. Use other records to try to narrow things down or to find the freguesia. I'm not so sure that a card that has popped up from ?????? is going to hold the clue that you need. Maybe it will, but there's a chance it may not. I can meet you in the genealogy room of the civic center library and we can go over what you have. If you want to do that, we need to go off list and email each other privately. gfscherim at gmail.com. 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 https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
