Hi Mario or Billy, You are looking a church records. They are done by date. If it's a baptism, they are going by baptism date. So they are chronological. It may take more than 2 days to get used to it though.
Silva/Silvia and things like that, you'll get use to it. If you know your dad was Mariano and was born 14 Apr 1914, you can get his baptism which will provide his parents and his grandparents and from there, you can use the online records. You need to know the exact village your dad came from. If he came from the city of Ponta Delgada on Sao Miguel, you'll need to know the church as they have a few. Once you get the 3 piece of information (name, date, and place -village and/or church), you can pay Joao Ventura to retrieve the record for you. He takes PayPal. His email is heroi99 at yahoo.com After that, we can show you the format that the records follow for the 3 time periods. It's on the Azores GenWeb here: http://www.worldgenweb.org/azrwgw/research-aids-a---l/finding-your-portuguese/finding-your-portuguese-9/ And if you learn better in person than reading and figuring it out on your own, you are in luck. We are having a Portuguese Genealogy Conference in June in Salt Lake City. That information is here: http://www.worldgenweb.org/azrwgw/2019slcazoresconfv12.pdf Good luck, Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 8:15 PM Billy Shear <billyshearb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've wasted two days, going through Birth records,Passport records > Baptismal records looking over the Centro de Conhecimento. All such a waste > of time. I don't understand their system, nothing is files by dates(like > year,month,day) they start with first names. So in my case. His first name > was Manuel and my Grandmother is Maria, page after page so disappointing. I > think I'll just forget about trying to find out were they came from and > just visit the Island. I would think someone would come up with a better > system. To make things worst their last name was changed from DaSilva to > Silvia when they come from Sao Miguel, Ponta Delgarda to the USA,so much > for accuracy. So half my cousins are Silva and the other half are Silvia. > My father was born there and his first name was Mariano, now that's a > different name. I found a few pages with that first name however it does > not go to April 14,1914. I hope when I get there it will be some what > easier. > > Thank for any help > Mario Silvia > > -- > 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
