We have the freguesias, just not the churches. Pete
> On Aug 27, 2018, at 8:21 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, same as doing research for birth (baptism), marriage, and death. You > need to know the church. Just about everything in Europe is organized on the > town level. So if you don't have your freguesia (village) on Sao Miguel, you > won't be doing much research. You can enjoy the sights, food, and culture of > the island! > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, > Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada > > >> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 8:18 PM Pete Jollymour <[email protected]> wrote: >> So I would have to know which church, or churches, to ask? >> >> Pete >> >>> On Aug 27, 2018, at 7:56 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> There are no census records for the Azores. >>> >>> Each individual church made confession rolls. The priest went from house to >>> house (before Easter, I believe) and listed everyone and their ages. So it >>> functions like a census. Very few are online. Some are on the CCA site and >>> other are scattered across private web sites. There's not a central >>> location for them. >>> Cheri Mello >>> Listowner, Azores-Gen >>> Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, >>> Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada >>> >>> >>>> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 7:53 PM Pete Jollymour <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I am wondering if there is a way to access census records for Sao Miguel >>>> in the 1800s ? The goal is to find home addresses for some ancestors so >>>> that we can see these places when we are there in November. >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> Pete >>>> >>>>> On Aug 27, 2018, at 3:47 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Repost for Celito Medeiros, celitofmedeiros at gmail.com >>>>> >>>>> I'm just curious about the Medeiros Family History. I was a friend of >>>>> José Antonio Gonçalves, from Madeira Island, recently deceased >>>>> journalist, whose portrait I painted and was invited to exhibitions and >>>>> TV program of his professional line. I was in the places of Portugal >>>>> where this genealogical tree begins with Rui Gonçalves de Medeiros >>>>> (1383), this Family Medeiros is natural of the place of Medeiros, in the >>>>> parish of Vila Chã, in the Municipality of Montalegre, district of Vila >>>>> Real, province of Trás- os-Montes between Chaves and Braga, 16 km from >>>>> the border with Spain, on the edge of the Barroso mountains, the province >>>>> is called 'behind-the-hills' in the far north of the Portuguese mainland. >>>>> The parish comprises: Castanheira, Firvidas, Gralhos, Medeiros, Peirezes, >>>>> Penedones, São Vicente, Travassos de Chã and Trogueda. He took over the >>>>> mayor of Évora. >>>>> >>>>> 1420-1450 - James Guill lists the names of several heads of families in >>>>> the Madeira archipelago, among which is Rui Vaz de Medeiros. Rui Vaz de >>>>> Medeiros, who lived in the time of Captain Rui Gonçalves de Medeiros, was >>>>> a native of Ponte de Lima, Guimarães region, Portugal, fled his father's >>>>> house and went first to Madeira during the first colonization, where he >>>>> married D. Ana (or Mecia) Gonçalves de Mendonça, a daughter of a noble >>>>> citizen, named Jorge de Mendonça. It had sesmaria in Tabua and left >>>>> generation in this parish Ponta do Sol and Funchal, with good connections >>>>> of blood. He then moved with his family to the Azores, having settled on >>>>> the island of São Miguel. >>>>> >>>>> My ancestors arriving in BRAZIL. >>>>> * 1753-Date of the birth of Manoel Jorge de Medeiros, native of Faial >>>>> Island, parish of Cedros, son of Maria do Rosario de Medeiros and Antonio >>>>> Jorge Ferreira. Manoel Jorge de Medeiros emigrated to Brazil where he >>>>> formed a family in the south of Minas Gerais, creating the Medeiros >>>>> Branch, in the city of Passos, Minas Gerais. Then some went to the North >>>>> and others to the South of Brazil in the States of Santa Catarina and Rio >>>>> Grande do Sul, then to Paraná. >>>>> >>>>> General João Nepomuceno de Medeiros Mallet, was born in Bagé, Rio Grande >>>>> do Sul on May 16, 1840 - died in Rio de Janeiro, December 12, 1907). He >>>>> was Governor of Mato Grosso and Ceará. Minister of War of Brazil >>>>> 1898-1902. >>>>> >>>>> General Octavio Aguiar de Medeiros was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1922, >>>>> from the new immigration and died in Brasília, September 5, 2005. He was >>>>> a general of the Brazilian Army and SNI's Chief of the Brazilian General >>>>> Figueiredo's Presidency. >>>>> >>>>> Noé Nunes de Medeiros, was born in 1927, was a politician and farmer of >>>>> the Agribusiness, in the Municipality of S. Miguel do Iguaçu (due to the >>>>> origin in the Island of S. Miguel, in the Azores), died in an accident in >>>>> the Farm in 1971 with only 44 years, I am your son Celito Freitas de >>>>> Medeiros, of this life (1951), with connections of the history of the >>>>> immigrants to the USA of 1926, as I already mentioned (reality or >>>>> fiction?). In addition, in addition to books in Brazil, there is a >>>>> trilingual (Portuguese - English - Spanish) fiction: The Earth Watchers >>>>> (AMAZON). >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >>> >>> -- >>> 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. > > -- > 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. 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