This might help you out with some additional info from the Azores GenWeb:
http://www.worldgenweb.org/azrwgw/research-aids-a---l/finding-your-portuguese/
Kathy
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Visit the Azores GenWeb Project:
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From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> on behalf of Cheri
Mello <[email protected]>
Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, August 26, 2018 at 7:28 AM
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Sears/Soares from Pico to Merced, California
married Freitas Caldeira from Flores
Gwen, You need to transfer to FTDNA where we have the Azores DNA Project, or
better yet, test on FTDNA's chip (Ancestry has under 200,000 family markers
whereas FTDNA tests for 700,000 markers). And FTDNA is having a sale this week.
Rick Pimentel, my co-admin, will post the direct link to order. If you want to
transfer, I can get you that information in a day.
Also, I don't see a lot of U.S. based research mentioned in your post. I'm
hoping someone can post the link from the Azores GenWeb for Gwen.
I'm not at home and right now I am not on my computer, so I am asking others to
help out by providing the links I've mentioned.
Cheri Mello, FTDNA Administrator
On Aug 26, 2018 9:17 AM, "Gwen Caldeira" <[email protected]> wrote:
John: thanks for the response. You had some contact with my brother Greg
Caldeira in 2013 but he kind of dropped researching; he did find a local paper
article from 1921 about the death of our grandfather Joseph Freitas Caldeira
Sr's train-car accident which was quite enlightening but gave us no new names
of possible sibs to give us Caldeira family info. Greg did visit Flores 3 yrs
ago, met a cousin from JFC's side of the family and got some info on cousins
(mostly in Brazil as it turns out) but not about any sibs who actually lived in
the US and may have had kids who would be our cousins. I did unearth a trove
of photos -- most looked to be from 1920-30s -- our Nana left us when she
died in 1965 that points to a close relationship between JFC Sr with at least
one brother (Jao or John we think), and we have a story of questionable
reliability that JFC Sr may have 2 or 3 sisters he lived with in the US in the
early 1900s but nothing about their married names or any offspring who'd be
cousins. But we've got nothing really about Nana Sears/Soares Caldeira's real
last name (or her real first name...she was variously referred to as Mary,
Maria, and Mariann) and whether she did/didn't have a brother living in the US
(photo with the two, but he could have been visiting from the Azores, not here
in the US). Most photos had no names of who was in the pictures; my attempt at
trying to trace people through the studio names on some of the portrait frames
was a dead end since they were so old.
So I'm trying to pick up on my Dad's parents and grandparents because we have
so few clues about who they were and which if any siblings might have come to
the US and would be our 2nd or 3rd cousins. My DNA points toward a large
Italian/Greek and Irish connection that would have to be from my paternal
grandparents or ggp generations and not really far back, something intriguing
and unexpected. Beyond trying to get in touch with some of the names the DNA
matches gave me, I'm lost. Greg did find the ship Joseph Freitas Caldeira Sr
arrived on in early 1900s in Providence but evidently he came alone (or with a
relative with a different surname). We know some first cousins (some we don't
due to alienation between Dad and 2 sisters) but even they don't know any
names beyond Nana and our grandfather. One first cousin is having her DNA done
which may give us some help refining DNA matches to contact....but I'm finding
people don't check their Ancestry.com accounts for messages very often so
getting replies back is slow. I've tried to find my Nana
Sears/Soares-Caldeira on ship manifest lists with variations of first and last
names, but so far no luck. Because there's so much Italian/Greek DNA in my DNA
profile, I'm wondering if our assumption "Mary Sears" had to be "Mary Soares"
isn't a good one, but then I don't what other names or ship manifest lists to
try. I'm hoping her 1965 death cert lists her parents names and maybe which
island she debarked from. We're believe my Nana was never naturalized, and
census data just says "Mary Caldeira" though there could be a 1910
(pre-marriage) census she appears on, but under what name and where (we think
she lived in Idaho after emigrating but are unsure when she came to the SF
area)?
The "Joseph Freitas from Craterville:" gave me a chuckle. We'd always
thought more volcano or cauldron, a little more dignified than "Craterville."
We know from JFC Sr.'s death cert his father went by 'Frank Freitas Caldeira'
which isn't the usual Portuguese linguistic convention, which would be
'mother's surname/father's surname' so that's odd. But we know it's possible
that American cousins might be using 'Freitas' instead of 'Caldeira' or even
some over name if JFC Sr's siblings were named by the normal linguistic
convention. We think Frank Freitas Caldeira owned land on the 'caldeira' part
of Flores: my Dad once said he got a letter from a tenant after Nana Caldeira
died about ownership of the house/land they'd been occupying for decades...we
don't know if what meant about our grandparents' siblings, whether there were
fewer than we thought or just that ownership of this house/land had been passed
around as Azorean-based siblings died off. Of course Dad threw out the
tenant's letter, so that clue is gone.
Do you have suggestions on searching for someone whose first and last names
may be variations of Mary Sears? Or is hoping that her death cert has her
parents' names or that some of my DNA matches get in touch with me about the
only lines of research for my Nana's parentage and possible siblings for both
Nana and my Grandfather Caldeira?
Saw your post on siblings having different DNA profiles and understand about
variations; but my brother is resistant to do the test to help identify maybe
more Caldeira/Sears relatives. I of course am curious about me actually having
more Italian/Greek DNA than Iberian and would love to track that down, but I'm
most concerned about who my paternal grandparents were and if they had siblings
that lived in America who might lead me to 2nd and 3rd cousins who would have
more family history. So help! What other records or places should I be
searching or posting on? Thanks, Gwen Caldeira
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 6:12 PM John Vasconcelos <[email protected]> wrote:
Gwen,
My gggrandfather Jose de Freitas da Caldeira was born 02 Aug 1774, Caldeira,
Mosteiro, Lajes das Flores, married 29 Aug 1796 at Nossa Sra dos Remediios (in
Fajazinha) to Ana Pimentel, born 10 Oct 1776, Lajedo, Lajes das Flores. They
were the parents of my ggrandfather Francisco de Freitas.
Caldeira is a small settlement (of about 2 or 3 houses) in the next valley over
the hill from Fajazinha so the residents were parishinors of Nossa Sra dos
Remedios. (Caldeira literally means crater and was the site of an ancient
volcanic crater) So Caldeira is a location name and his full name could be
translated to "Joe Freitas from Craterville" These suffixes (especially upon
immigration) have a tendency of becoming the official surname. So we might be
cousins!
I have 3 or 4 more generations back, so if you are interested, email me at
GfsJohnV at gmail dot com.
John Vasconcelos
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 9:14 AM Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote:
Repost for Gwen, 123caldeira at gmail.com
Recently did Ancestry.com DNA, am now backtracking to find info on paternal
side (already had maternal DNA matches and know many maternal first-third
cousins).
My paternal grandmother's name was Mary Sears in some records, but Mary could
be Maria, and Sears could be Soares. No middle name known. She died in
Merced County in March, 1965, and was born about 1889 possibly in Pico,
Azores. We have nothing on the yr she emigrated nor port of entry, but family
story is she worked on a sheep ranch in Idaho for a few yrs under sponsorship
of an uncle (no name) and may have had at least one brother here in the US (we
think it was Anthony or Antonio Sears/Soares). She married Joseph Freitas
Caldeira (we think from Flores, Azores) in Contra Costa Cty in 1911, then
settled in Gustine, CA, had 5 living children, including my Dad, Joseph (Jr).
Joseph Freitas Caldeira 1921 death cert says his parents were Frank Freitas
Caldeira and Mary Sousa of the Azores. We have no info on Mary's parents'
names; picked up the Pico, Azores birthplace from a Google Group string from
2013 which seemed to match my grandmother's dates. Using DNA matches from
maternal relatives I've picked out names of 2nd and 3rd cousins in my own DNA
matches that I believe may be related to me through my paternal
grandfather/grandmother; no responses yet from messages sent through
Ancestry.com so think I need more names/info on both paternal grands.
I'd appreciate help picking up info or links on both of my paternal
grandparents, but especially on my grandmother Mary/Maria Soares/Sears e.g.
we'd like to find out if her maiden surname was really Sears or Soares or
something else as my DNA ethnicity groups show unexpected possibility of
non-Portuguese lineage in the paternal greatgrandparent generation (Italian and
Irish in very high percentages). Thanks, Gwen
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