Cheri If I get Legacy will I be able to do searches? I quit Ancestry and now every time I get a “possible match” I’m blocked from getting the info unless I rejoin Ancestry. It’s too expensive and too able to be hijacked in my tree.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 31, 2018, at 4:48 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
