Maybe so but i have done quite well and have researched back to the 1600s and translated on 3 lines so far and this would be the final one and i am confident it will be complete this one too. She got married in Fall River in 1895 and died in 1916 very clear on both records as to her marriage and death dates and the name of her parents and husband but that's about it.She died young in her 30s according to what my mother was told but the numbers don't add up,i think about 40+ based on her marriage and leaving 8 children behind and losing 3. I have done everything here that i can and all family members have passed. I might have to go thru every family record but i will get this done.
On Saturday, December 17, 2016 at 12:30:08 PM UTC-5, Cheri Mello wrote: > > Paul, > > Guessing and assumptions are a dangerous thing! > > Really, though, you are not ready to start searching over there. You need > to start in America. You need to start with her death (get the > certificate), obituaries, naturalization/alien registration, censuses, > marriage from the church book (not the certificate), etc, etc. A how to of > sources can be found on the Azores Gen Web here: https://goo.gl/xYgVpZ > > Or you can use the needle-in-the-haystack method. Sao Miguel has about 70 > freguesias to search. You have about 68 more to go. :) > > Seriously though, it took me 4 years and 25 documents until I found my > freguesia. I've got a couple of more documents now and it's still only that > one document where the freguesia is stated. That was all before computers, > so now maybe it would take me a couple of months to find the freguesia. > > Good luck, > > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, > Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada > -- 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.
