Hello, I believe I have found the first baptism records of the Costa side of my family who settled in Napa in the late 1800's along with the Pimental family. Several Costas married several Pimentals including my great great grandparents Jerome Sebastian Pimental and Conceicao Marie Costa.
I am having a hard time reading the names (parent's, god parents, and confirming child name) - if anyone would be willing to help decipher these records I would very much appreciate it! The family was from Santa Cruz, Flores and the records that I believe might be the following family members are below: 3 siblings (Ermelinda, Joseph, John Costa) - the parents are Maria de Jesus Azevedo and ? Costa Ermelinda A Costa born July 18, 1867: http://www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/FLR-SC-SANTACRUZ-B-1865-1870/FLR-SC-SANTACRUZ-B-1865-1870_item1/P71.html Jose (Joseph) Francisco Costa born Nov 1869 (I do not have date): http://www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/FLR-SC-SANTACRUZ-B-1865-1870/FLR-SC-SANTACRUZ-B-1865-1870_item1/P162.html Joao (John) Costa born Oct 22 1871: 2 possible Joao Costas: http://www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/FLR-SC-SANTACRUZ-B-1870-1875/FLR-SC-SANTACRUZ-B-1870-1875_item1/P38.html or http://www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/FLR-SC-SANTACRUZ-B-1870-1875/FLR-SC-SANTACRUZ-B-1870-1875_item1/P40.html The generation above include the following siblings: (Conceicao, Antone, Margarida and sister in law Maria Azevedo married to the unknown first name Costa husband) Conceicao Marie Costa born Nov 3 1861: http://www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/FLR-SC-SANTACRUZ-B-1861-1865/FLR-SC-SANTACRUZ-B-1861-1865_item1/P30.html The older siblings are in a different book and the handwriting is much more difficult to decipher. Can anyone tell me what row to find the year and month so I might narrow in on these family members: page 1 of the years 1842-1857 is at the below link: http://www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/FLR-SC-SANTACRUZ-B-1842-1857/FLR-SC-SANTACRUZ-B-1842-1857_item1/P3.html Antone Costa born 1855 (month not known) Maria E Costa born 1850 (month not known) Margarida Costa born 1848 (month not known) Maria de Jesus Azevedo (sister in law) born Jan 15 1843 - not sure if also from Santa Cruz. Thank you all for your help. So exciting that after about 5 years I might have traced part of the family back to the Azores - and thanks to the UPEC records which are the only documents I've found listing the town which helped narrow my search! Regards, Janet Carminati -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/c9614662-3c9b-4aaf-b40d-4d687fa0e80b%40googlegroups.com.
