Pete J, It depends on what you mean by "old." Some priests recorded the house number (if it existed) and some did not. Some records (whether Sao Miguel or other islands) clearly state "in a house without a number." I find the name of the street more often than a house number. As I work back in time, I don't always find the street.
So basically you are asking how to build a family tree. Get yourself a good genealogy program. That's a program that resides on your computer. Take a look at Legacy Family Tree (www.legacyfamilytree.com). Their Standard Edition is free. Look at RootsMagic (www.rootsmagic.com). Their Essentials is free. If you like them well enough, they are about $30 USD to purchase (unlocks other features and adds about 100 bells and whistles). Cloud based sites (Ancestry.com, MyHeritage, Geni.com, etc) are not really genealogy programs. You won't be able to determine relationships between people. If you want to put your work out there on the Internet, you may be able to sync your program to one of the cloud based sites or you can just Gedcom it over. Basically start with your own family and enter what you know. If you have birth, death, marriage documents to back it up, put that down in the program too. Then collect the siblings of your couple. When I started genealogy, I was told that the proper way was to collect all the children (with spouses) and grandchildren (with spouses) of your ancestral couple. That was rather tedious before massive databases like Ancestry. Many times, I now go even further than the grandchildren. When you hit your immigrant ancestor, you'll probably be in the 3rd time period. Those baptisms give the grandparents. Here's a how-to so you can get started: https://goo.gl/dGG4Ar Good luck, Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 3:36 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > Repost for Pete Jollymour, (3apeterj at gmail.com > > Hi all > I am very new to this research. > My questions are: > > Do the old São Miguel records list addresses? > > How do all these separate family trees become patched together to > determine broader relationships? > > Thanks for any consideration. > > Pete Jollymour (via de Amaral, deJesus, de Araujo, Tavares, Cabral, > etc.....) > > Pete > > -- 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.
