Do you have to be in Ponta Delgada in order to view all the pages of your search,or is there a way of doing so through the internet at home?
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 7:19 PM Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > While I was in Ponta Delgada on Sao Miguel island, I made extensive use of > the inventories or wills. I was able to find them on the Archives Catalog > at http://www.arquivos.azores.gov.pt/ I don't know how to find them for > other islands. I don't think the other archives entered them or perhaps the > inventories or wills are not housed at the other archives. > > The inventories and wills varied a lot and from time period to time > period. The more recent ones were better, as they were more organized and > followed a format. > > They started with a cover page, naming the deceased and who was in charge > of their inventory. Some had maybe 7 pieces of paper (so potentially 14 > pages of information). Some had 144 pieces of paper (288 pages of > information). The more "recent" ones (1920s forward) had a copy of the > death certificate with the cause of death listed. Or the best that medicine > knew for that time period. They named children, grandchildren, > great-grandchildren if they had any. If you can read the births and > marriages, then you already know the words of "filhos" and "netos." > "Bisnetos" are the great-grandchildren. Some listed relatives on the > paternal side "pelo lado paterno" or the maternal side "pelo lada materna," > Anytime I saw the word "familia" I scanned the page. Some listed what I > believe were people they owed. Some listed what they owned, as in the > furnishings and whatnot. My 2 great-grandmother's had a declaration from > her husband. I don't know what it says yet. I'm waiting on my cousin to > tell me. And there was a lot of legal stuff in there too. > > The earliest will/inventory that I looked at was from 1807. Some exist > from the 1700s. > > Not every ancestor will have an inventory or will. You didn't need to own > property to have an will or inventory. As I said, it appeared that one guy > owed a lot of people a lot of money. > > They allowed me to take pictures with my camera (found out I need a > different pair of reading glasses to take pictures). They said that the > inventories are NEVER to be posted anywhere on the Internet. That means > Ancestry.com, Geni.com, My Heritage, FamilySearch.org, your own personal > page, etc. They consider the inventories private Yes, I understand that if > the person died in 1807, no one alive today was mentioned in that will. But > they have their rules. I said it was going to be left on my computer so I > could consult it. I would extract only genealogy information from the > documents, but would never post an image of any them. So for those > utilizing the inventories/wills, do NOT post them ANYWHERE on the Internet > or you mess it up for future genealogists. > > Hopefully the other archives will get their inventories/wills up on the > Archives Catalog. > 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.
