Thank you so much. I have looked for 20 years trying to find this family and it is like hitting a brick wall.
On Monday, May 29, 2017 at 4:11:33 PM UTC-4, Cheri Mello wrote: > > Brenda, > > Everything over there is organized at the town/village level (most of > Europe is that way). > > Knowing island and council is not enough. You need the freguesia (village) > so you can find the church. > > It will be Luis over there. > > The order from small to large would be Ponta Delgada (the council), Sao > Miguel island, Azores (autonomous region), Portugal (country). The only > reason I put "island" in there is to eliminate confusion. There's an island > called Sao Jorge, but there are also churches with that name. There are > others that I could cite as examples as well. Most people just post the > freguesia and island and don't bother with the rest. > > If you don't have the freguesia (village) yet, here's a list of things to > get you started to find it: https://goo.gl/vOijK0 > > It's on the main site of the Azores GenWeb. You'll want to bookmark it and > explore it some more: https://goo.gl/Xzol8B > > Good luck, Cheri > > 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.
