:) Maybe we should get a group of people together and start extracting the baptisms followed by death records now that the marriages are done.
Suzanne On Sunday, September 3, 2017 at 2:23:51 PM UTC-7, Jeremy G. B-C: Researching Sao Jorge wrote: > > Hello All, > > I just was researching one of my lines in Sao Jorge and got another > generation back in the early 1700's but I did so in a rather unique way, > and thought that I would share because it may hep someone. Unknowingly, I > did so exactly the same way as previously done by Marcio Borba. > > I had traced my line back to a 5th great grandfather in Sao Jorge, and > since his marriage record is among the missing, I was not able to > determine his parenthood. However, I knew that based on his death record > he was born in Calheta about 1700. His name was Francisco and so there are > way to many births for me to latch on to any particular one. I was doing > research on another line going through the early death records of the same > town. I stumbled across one for a lady named Maria de Sousa. The record > mentioned the soul of her grandson Pascoal de Sousa, son of Francisco de > Sousa Goulart, her son. I always to at least some research on my distant > aunts and uncles (as all should) and so I knew when he died, and it was > indeed before her. The Francisco de Sousa Goulart was my ancestor, > ThereforeI was able to tac on another generation. > > The moral of this being that there is some good information in some of > those older death records where they list whom the person was predeceased > by, and always always always pull at least the baptismal records of your > ancestors siblings. The collateral research always pays off. > > JEREMY > -- 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.
