Wow. Congratulations I guess this is something I have to try to do with one of mine with same names. Though I've had 2 professionals try to straighten it out also. Guess I'm going to have to dig in. Thanks for the inspiration
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 24, 2017, at 3:32 AM, MaryAnn Santos <[email protected]> wrote: > > Amazing, Richard! > > >> On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 8:39 PM, Richard Francis Pimentel >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> My project of compiling marriages from Santissimo Salvador is progressing I >> am now up to 1902 with 3 more years to go. >> >> >> >> Because I am entering the information into a genealogy program it is taking >> more time than I originally anticipated. I started working on this project >> 20 years ago. >> >> >> >> Things take time and I try to be accurate. Yesterday I was entering a >> marriage. The bride was Maria Julia Cabral. Her parents were Francisco >> Cabral de Mello and Maria Jose Pacheco. I found her parents easily in my >> data base and proceeded to add her. >> >> >> >> When I looked at her age I computed her birth date as born before 7 Jul >> 1881. But wait I already had a sister Maria da Conceicao with a birth date >> of 20 March 1881. Something is wrong here I have two Marias with birthdates >> in the same gestation period. >> >> >> >> I recheck both marriages and the Parents names are exactly the same I spend >> the next several hours looking for the birth of another Maria including >> checking names in other girls born in the time. The only thing I learned is >> that the birth record of Maria da Conceicao said first of the name. So if >> the parents had another Maria the birthdate would be after the first Maria >> in other words, start looking 9 months after 20 March 1881. But the problem >> is Maria Julia Cabral age on her marriage date of 7 July 1902 is 21. I came >> to the conclusion that one of these Marias had the wrong parents names >> entered in the records. The question is which one and who were the other set >> of parents. >> >> >> >> The solution I employed was to look for births of children from the two >> Marias and see if the grandparents names were the same or different. >> >> >> >> I started with Maria Julia Cabral. A year and a half after her marriage she >> had a son and the grand parents were the same as her parents in her marriage >> record. Also the sons name was Simao the same name as a brother with her >> parent’s names. >> >> >> >> Next I looked after the marriage of Maria da Conceicao and about a year >> after her marriage she had a son. Her parents names were given as Francisco >> Cabral and Maria de Jesus Silva as compared to Maria Julia Cabral parents >> names of Francisco Cabral de Mello and Maria Jose Pacheco. >> >> >> >> To tie this all up I looked for the baptism of Maria da Conceicao with these >> new parents names and found a record on 19 Apr 1880 with the parent’s names >> of Francisco Cabral and Maria de Jesus. Her maternal grandfather’s name was >> Manual da Silva. The icing on this cake was a margin note giving information >> on her marriage with her husband down to the date and record number. Case >> solved. Names were close but the families were different. The birth date I >> had for Maria da Conceicao was actually the on for Maria Julia Cabral The >> error in the marriage records was the priest wrote the wrong parents names >> for Maria da Conceicao. >> >> >> >> >> >> Rick >> >> Richard Francis Pimentel >> >> Epping, NH >> >> >> >> Researching, Riberia Grande, Riberinha, Achada Grande, Bretanha, and Ponta >> Delgada, Sao Miguel, Acores >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > MaryAnn Santos > Senior Advisement and Student Affairs Administrator > Department of Art and Art Professions > NYU/Steinhardt > 212.998.5702 > [email protected] > > Follow us at > Twitter / @NYUart > Instagram / @nyuart > Facebook / NYU Art Department > -- > 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.
