Lisa, I have the book that you are speaking about "The Holy Ghost Festas". It was published by Portuguese Heritage Publications and is now out of print. You can get a CD of the book by going to their webpage, PortugueseBooks.org This was the information that they gave me last year when I was looking for the book for a friend. Here is an excerpt from their webpage. . Note: This publication is currently sold out and there are no future plans for a 3rd edition. Anyone interested in or doing research on the Portuguese in California may acquire the _Holy Ghost Festas CD_ (http://portuguesebooks.org/books/the-holy-ghost-festas-cd/) – the complete text of the original book. Mary Ann Marshall In a message dated 10/23/2016 7:04:33 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, azores@googlegroups.com writes:
The book about the festas is The Holy Ghost Festas: A Historic Perspective of the Portuguese in California, Tony P. Goulart, published by Portuguese Chamber of Commerce of San Jose in 2003. I checked World Cat and it is available in many libraries in California and a few other random libraries across the country. On World Cat it looks like you can search within the book but when I tried to search the names and places that I know are in the book, "no matches" returned. Lisa -----Original Message----- From: Marilyn Thompson <mari...@jmtmlt.com> To: Cheri Mello <azores@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sat, Oct 22, 2016 10:16 pm Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] UPEC books What was the name of the book you found the additional information in? The book might be found in another library also. Great that you found photos of your family members. On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 8:24 PM, 'Susan Murphy' via Azores Genealogy <azores@googlegroups.com> wrote: Sounds really interesting and it was definitely worth the trip for you to find that photo and other tidbits of information. Thank you for reporting back to us!! Susan Sent from my iPhone On Oct 22, 2016, at 1:37 PM, themom8682 via Azores Genealogy <azor e...@googlegroups.com> wrote: The UPEC books (all in Portuguese of course) contained the records of the business of the organization. There were some pages in the books that folded out with copies of the "death" records showing what was paid out and to whom. I have a close friend who has a great great grandfather that was president of the UPEC for a time so there were many many references to him in the books. I did find a small gem in a book about the Festas in California. There is a 1-4 page history of each of the festas from different areas all over California. I learned that my 3g uncle founded the festa in Sausalito AND there was a photo of him in the book! Also, there was a photo from the Yreka area festa of some cousins through another 3g uncle. Lisa -----Original Message----- From: 'Susan Murphy' via Azores Genealogy <azores@googlegroups.com> To: azores <azores@googlegroups.com> Sent: Mon, Oct 17, 2016 10:15 am Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] UPEC books Hi! I would be interested to hear what you find as I live in Sacramento. I have memories of going to going to a few conventions with my mom of the SPRSI and I just have a hunch that there would be little of genealogical value in “Sessions of the Supreme Council of UPEC” but am interested to hear what you find. The real value of the membership books are that they often give the island of origin information and some family relationships in the beneficiaries listed in their rolls. Happy hunting! Susan Vargas Murphy PS….I have not been to that library for years but if I am remembering correctly, I did look at original books for marriages in Alameda County ….which was very cool. On Oct 17, 2016, at 10:09 AM, themom8682 via Azores Genealogy <azo...@googlegroupse.com> wrote: Researching at the State Library in Sacramento, CA this morning. If anyone is interested, they have four volumes of books with the Sessions of the Supreme Council of UPEC: San Leandro, 1887-1898; Santa Cruz, 1899-1903; San Rafael, 1904-1907; and San Jose, 1924-1927. There are no indexes so you would need to know which book to look in and really scour it for your person. -- 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 azores+unsubscribe@azores+unsubscri. 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