Thank you so much for your information of Araujo's being everywhere on Sao Miguel. I'm the oldest living descendent and the closest related to Francisco. I had thought about doing a DNA while my father was still alive but never got to do it. I guess I will need to get back to the parish records. I'm just finding it hard as I can only see out of one eye at the moment. Thank you for your information. It is greatly appreciated.
On Thursday, January 11, 2018 at 3:48:11 AM UTC+11, Cheri Mello wrote: > > It is very difficult to research Sao Miguel island with its 70 or so > parishes without knowing which parish your ancestor came from. Araujos are > all over Sao Miguel. > > I'd go to your local genealogy society and ask how to trace an immigrant > ancestor in Australia around 1850. Are there censuses, naturalizations, or > other documents that you can look at that might list your ancestor's place > of birth? Any Australian military records, his death record, his obituary, > etc? I'm not Australian so I'm not familiar with what you have for > resources to trace an immigrant ancestor. > > If that work turns up no more than Sao Miguel island, you could turn to > DNA. Understand though that it's not a magic wand. Sao Miguel island is the > largest and we have only a couple of DNA clusters so far on that island. If > you test and match a group of testees who are all researching in a > particular freguesia (village), then you'll know where to start looking. > However, it is most likely that you won't match a clear cluster, but your > results will sit there, attracting more matches over time. While you play > wait-and-see you can work other matches or force matches to happen by > testing other family members. If you do decide to go this route, test the > oldest person on your Araujo line. If that's one of your parents, test your > parent first. If your parents are deceased, but have a living sibling, test > them first. If your parents and their siblings are all deceased, then you > are the best candidate so you could test yourself. You would want to order > the Family Finder test at Family Tree DNA here: https://goo.gl/i34dpE > > If your maiden name is Araujo, then we would want to test someone else too > and with a different kind of test in addition to the one above. > > Good luck, Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, > Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:46 AM, Annette <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Can anyone please tell me anything about my 2nd great grandfather, He >> was a farmer and married a lady called Antonia, who we don't know of her >> last name. >> I don't know what parish they came from, only it was Sao Miguel. >> My great grandfather's name was Francisco Batila De Araujo or De >> Araugo. He was born in 1832. >> Francisco ran away to sea when he was 16 years old and ended up on the >> gold fields as a miner in Bendigo Victoria Australia. >> I know of all the children Francisco had and the rest of the family. >> I'm hopeful that someone will know of him or the name De Araujo and what >> part of Sao Miguel they came from. >> >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
