The churches can be obtained from the catalog on Family Search, from Tombo.pt or the CCA, and are also listed on the Azores GenWeb.
On Aug 28, 2018 3:48 AM, "Pete Jollymour" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > 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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