I helped i believe someone with this line further. A year or so ago I will check if I kept The tree On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 2:55 PM dwoodtax via Azores Genealogy < [email protected]> wrote:
> Cheri, > Thank you for the corrections. I have noted them on my files. > Donna > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cheri Mello <[email protected]> > To: Azores Genealogy <[email protected]> > Sent: Sat, May 27, 2017 5:44 pm > Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Pimentel from Ponta DelGada, Saint Michaels > > The proper spelling of the council is Ponta Delgada. The proper spelling > of the island is Sao Miguel. The sources I'm going to direct you to use > Portuguese spellings. We should all use them to simplify our searching. > > You can find the records you mention on the CCA site. That's the Azorean > government website. They have digitized the records. Because it's from the > Azorean government where Portuguese is the national language, everything > will be in Portuguese. So you must use Portuguese spellings. > > You can use tombo.pt/en as a portal or table of contents to the CCA. The > navigation is in English. Once you click on the link to the CCA though, you > will be seeing things in Portuguese again. Once you land on the Tombo.pt/en > page, look at the left column and type in Faja de Baixo and it will list > all the records for that freguesia. > > As for a Joao born somewhere on Sao Miguel island on what you believe is 7 > Oct 1898...you'll need a freguesia. You could search all 70 churches on Sao > Miguel looking for him. Here's a list of things to try to narrow down the > freguesia: https://goo.gl/vOijK0 > > 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
