Sam, I’m helping index Sao Jorge but working on one of “my” villages. So I’m sort of doing both.
Unfortunately I am going very slowly on this one. Must get to work. :) Mary On Saturday, March 2, 2019, 'Sam (Camas, WA)' via Azores Genealogy < [email protected]> wrote: > Yes, that does seem odd. Which island are you doing and are you > extracting the records or only looking for your line? Just curious what > others are doing. > > > > Sam (Mazatlán, MX) > > > > *From: *Mary Bordi <[email protected]> > *Sent: *Saturday, March 2, 2019 10:45 AM > *To: *[email protected] > *Subject: *Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] July 1900 disaster Santa Maria? > > > > I’m looking at deaths for another island. And indeed there are times when > there are one or more deaths every day for weeks, with families losing > several members. So sad. > > > > And then there are months with only a few deaths. > > > > But I found one stretch of two months with no deaths at all and no > notation that the records had been lost...and THAT made me wonder! (This > was in the 1850s.) > > > > Mary > > On Saturday, March 2, 2019, 'Sam (Camas, WA)' via Azores Genealogy < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Linda; Interesting thought, about epidemics being so much a part of > everyday life. Also, as Cheri said, could have been as simple as one child > getting a communicable disease and passing it on the other child. Since I > first posted my question, I have come upon another two records showing twin > infants who died within days of each other. I’m extracting obits and it is > so sad to see so many infants and toddlers dying in a month long period. > So far, it’s been almos 50/50 between adults and infants/toddlers. I now > understand better why you always hear of the short life expectancy in > bygone times. Many people lived into their 70’s & 80’s but; so many died > as infants/toddlers that the average was brought way down. I feel so bad > for all those families. > > > > Sam (Mazatlán, MX) > > > > *From: *linda <[email protected]> > *Sent: *Friday, March 1, 2019 8:28 PM > *To: *Azores Genealogy <[email protected]> > *Subject: *[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: July 1900 disaster Santa Maria? > > > > There are no major natural disasters listed here: > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_disasters_in_the_Azores > > > > So, I'm with Cheri and am putting my money on an epidemic: > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseases_and_epidemics_of_the_19th_century > > > > A long while back, I read a 19th century travelogue that described the > writer's ship's passengers as not being allowed to disembark at one of the > Islands either 1) until the ship was cleared as being free of epidemic > disease, or 2) not being allowed to disembark at all because the ship had > come from a port where an epidemic had been occurring. Sorry my > recollection is vague and I don't recall the source. My point is, I > suppose, that epidemics were so much a part of life that there was a > bureaucracy in place to deal with them. > > > On Friday, March 1, 2019 at 4:51:36 PM UTC-8, Sam Koester wrote: > > I’m doing obits right now and I have two siblings, one 11 months and the > other 15 days old that died 9 days apart in July of 1900. (July 20 and 29 > th) So sad. Out of curiosity, does anyone know of some disaster that > occurred around that time on Santa Maria island? 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