You may be able to look on Google Earth to find the street before you go. I remember Joao showing us his home on the island using it. Just a thought.
I hope you have a great trip and find what you want to. Marilyn On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 8:48 AM, 'Susan Murphy' via Azores Genealogy < azores@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Hi Ken, > > I think you have made some great decisions and are making wonderful > progress! Sorry to scare you off of SATA but I have a feeling that the > flight that you take from Terceira to Graciosa might be with SATA? I really > am no expert at all, but I want to reassure you, if it is, that those inter > island flights on SATA were very good! The long flights to and from the US > were the ones that with which we have had all the problems. > > Really good idea to just try to have quality time on Graciosa! I took a > look at some of your records and just wanted to make sure you saw that they > give the actual street on which your grandfather was born. Caminho das > Fontes! Maybe you will get even more clues in these records but this is a > wonderful bit of information. You can certainly find that street and know > you are walking in the footsteps of your ancestors!! > > Very excited for you! > > Susan Vargas Murphy > > On Mar 1, 2017, at 7:23 AM, Ken Waters <satwatcher....@gmail.com> wrote: > > All, > > Thanks so much for the replies and suggestions. I combined all my > comments and updates into one e-mail in order to avoid posting too many > individual posts on the list. > > Given the comments I saw on SATA it sounds like using TAP as proposed may > be a good choice. I think I'd like to pass on getting the "I survived SATA" > t-shirt (and the experience). :-) > > As I mentioned I found $82 Lisbon-Terceira. I found Lisbon-Graciosa > (changing in Terceira) for $144. I like the idea of taking one of the > ferries but from what I saw online and comments found it seems the service > can be irregular. Indeed, online it looked like service was only once a > week, particularly during the off-season and I couldn't even find a > schedule. Given all that I feel it might be safer to look at the > Lisbon-Graciosa flights. Perhaps a longer stay could involve the ferry (I > love the idea of taking a boat for the scenic aspect) but not this time. > > I took seriously the comments about strategy regarding one versus multiple > islands. I'm pretty locked into no more than 4 days maximum and so I think > I'd like to take the tack of doing one island well and that one should be > the one where I might have the biggest bang in terms of family searching. > That will allow enough time to thoroughly soak up the culture as well as > search for my possible da Silva relations in person and in records. > > I did take a look at AirBNB and was pleased to find a couple of facilities > that look very promising and at very reasonable rates. I think I will > attempt to use one of them for the stay. > > Now, shifting to the da Silva line, I want to thank those who sent > promising notes about da Silva/Silva connections in Graciosa: Leonard, Sue > Q, and Don. I would like to follow up with each of you. I plan on doing > some more pre-trip legwork (including CCA research) to give me a better > chance of success on the island. Along those lines, I started building a > website (http://www.familytreeaz.com/Working/daSilva_Graciosa/) to help > me keep track of my da Silva family and the records found. I've still got > 4 more that I need to find (please disregard those placeholder links for > now) and add to the website but do have 4 on there now. I included both my > digital image excerpts of each record as well as the link to the specific > page to facilitate better analysis (including others on the same page). I > hope to have the missing 4 up there by this evening. Much thanks to Edna > Epps for finding these records that would have probably taken me 10x the > time to find. Here is the family group that I'm referring to: > > PARENTS > > Manuel da Silva, born 9 Oct 1806, Santa Cruz > Louisa Candida, born 23 Jan 1799, Santa Cruz > MARRIAGE: 9 Sept 1827, Santa Cruz > > CHILDREN > > Maria da Silva, born 21 June 1828, Santa Cruz > Francisco da Silva, born 24 Aug 1831, Guadalupe > Manuel da Silva, born 10 Oct 1837, Guadalupe > Rita da Silva, born 20 Feb 1841, Guadalupe > Joao da Silva, born 6 Dec 1845, Guadalupe --> migrated to Yreka CA > > > Joao da Silva is my great-grandfather. Don Vasconcelos, if you are > agreeable I might like to look up your relative there, particularly if you > think she might be able to have some information that might help. Do you > know if she speaks any English? As I gain more information going through > these records including, hopefully, tie-ins to others who have Silva/da > Silva's in Graciosa I will post them to the list. > > Again, thanks All for the great comments and suggestions! > > Ken > -- > Amateur Genetic Genealogist in Mesa, AZ > Twitter: @FamilyTreeAZ > Interests: DNA, Azores, San Francisco, early colonial America > Blog: familytreeAZ.com <http://familytreeaz.com> > > -- > 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. > > > -- > 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. 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