Manuel M, Ask your mom what freguesia and church she was baptized at. Everything there (and most of Europe) is organized on the town level.
Does your mom have her birth or baptismal information from there? The site you need is Tombo.pt. You can go to Tombo.pt/en to naviagate in English. Since the records are coming from the country of Portugal, they will be written in Portuguese, just like the Catholic records in France will be in French and the ones in Germany will be in German. In America, we speak English, so our vital records are recorded in English. Even if someone on the Azores wanted a death certificate for their great-aunt who died in America, it's going to come in English. It won't be in Portuguese for them. Make sense? The Catholic church records follow a format. You'll be researching the 3rd time period for a while. There's a list of key words and a transcribed example on the Azores GenWeb here: https://goo.gl/4Tzc2i Also there's a Portuguese Genealogical Conference and Research Trip planned in Salt Lake City, Utah for June 25-28, 2019. That's NEXT YEAR, or about 11 months away. If your mom is alive, get her DNA now! Order the Family Finder test on her from here: https://goo.gl/r7TnP8 I will explain later how it works. Get your dad's too if he is alive or one of his siblings if he is not alive. If he is not Portuguese, go ahead an order from the Azores DNA Group Project link above and I'll get you over to the correct project. Happy hunting! Cheri Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 4:54 AM, Manuel Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > My mother, Orlanda Borges da Silva Miller, was born Oct 1926 on Terceira, > Azores. My grandfather Manuel da Silva was born july of 1899 or 1900 and > died in 1974 both on Terceira. My grandmother was Maria de Lurdes da > Silveria Borges. I do not have any dates for her. > > Question is as follows: is there a site where I can research them and > their past family members history? Perferably in English as unfortunately > I never learned Portugese from my Mom! > > Any help would be great! > > -- > 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.
