A couple of miscarriages can fit in a 5 year period. Just a thought. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 5:32 PM Leonor Bertoni <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks JR, I did look in Santa Cruz, nothing. What I found on Ancestry was > an actual document, a marriage registration, not someone’s tree. I’ve been > thinking though, I don’t think my great grandfather left the island, just > my uncle and maybe some siblings. My grandfather never left. > > On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 8:09 PM JR <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It is worth looking in Santa Cruz, Lagoa, because sometimes people moved >> around depending where there was work. I would be leery of what Ancestry >> posts. They don't check or verify anything. And as stated here many times, >> people just collect names, add them to their trees, and post them without >> ever checking or verifying. Your work is much more thorough and important. >> >> JR >> >> On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 7:28:07 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> Hello all, >>> I'm researching my great grandfather Jose Soares Manteiga's line. Jose >>> Soares Manteiga married Maria Amelia Calheta on 25 Oct 1880, in Rosario, >>> Lagoa. My researched gave me 9 children all born in Rosario, Lagoa: >>> Francisco b: 1885, Maria b: 1887, Antonio b: 1889, Jose b; 1890, Maria b: >>> 1892, Maria b: 1894, Rosa b: 1897, Jacintha b: 1900, Joao b: 1903. Finding >>> it a little bit strange that they didn't have kids until 5 years after they >>> got married, I went back and looked again, still found nothing. I found all >>> of these kids by searching all the records 1 by 1 from 1880 to 1905. >>> Ancestry tells me that there was another child born on February 9, 1883 by >>> the name of Manoel. It looks like my great grandfather immigrated to the US >>> in 1902 (according to Ancestry), I also found a marriage registration for a >>> Manuel Soares Manteiga, son of Jose Soares Manteiga and Maria Amelia >>> Calheta. I searched the baptismal records again, still found nothing on a >>> Manuel or Manoel born to Jose Soares Manteiga and Maria Amelia Calheta. I >>> am not sure where else to look. Ideas? >>> >> -- >> 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.
