Pete J, There's a how to "read" the records on the Azores GenWeb here. It also tells you what to expect from the 3 times periods for the different records (with line by line translations): https://goo.gl/4Tzc2i
Or hire a research if you don't want to do it yourself: https://goo.gl/nDfVUx Most people who do it themselves are non-native speakers and we learned how to "read" the records. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 4:06 PM Pete Jollymour <[email protected]> wrote: > How would someone like me be able to find specific information in the > volumes of Portuguese text that comprises these records? Seems impossible > for me. > > Pete > > On Aug 29, 2018, at 5:58 AM, Jose Medeiros <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Pete, > > Some priests on baptism records would put time and street where a child > was born as in those days all would be born at home > > On Monday, August 27, 2018 at 10:53:12 PM UTC-4, Pete Jollymour 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. 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