Thanks for posting a link to my article, Cheri! I have been fortunate that a good portion of this line stayed in Maia for many generations. So, you can imagine that the further you go back the more you marry into families and the more people you collect.
It really wasn't until a cousin in Fall River, MA found me that I started to collect most of the village. We had to do quite a bit of research to figure out how her line that left in the 1890s and my line that left in 1882 were related. By the time we got done untangling it, we had researched half the darn village. Now we know that we are 4th cousins, once removed through 3 lines, and 6 cousins twice removed (once). It's because of delving into the families that I've been able to find my connections to Craig Mello (Nobel Prize winner), David Leite (chef and cookbook writer/columnist), and Remigio Pereira (Canadian singer and musician)--all with roots in Maia. Finding the famous people is fun, but I feel because I've done so much research in this one village, I have a little more sense of who they are, their ancestry, and how my family fits in. Learning that I have cousins in California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Canada, and most likely Brasil (haven't explored that one yet) is pretty neat. On Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 3:28:16 PM UTC-7, Cheri Mello wrote: > > Mel Lassalle, one of our list members, writes a blog. Her specialty is > Portuguese Hawaiian research, but she writes on other topics as well. > > Today, she wrote about how she started off researching only one line in > the freguesia (village) of Maia and how it turned into researching most of > Maia. You can read her article here: > https://goo.gl/Wy2Bz3 > 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.
