I was so hoping it meant I finally found their first child, lol. :) I will hunt obits, now for lists of all the children. Thank you both for all of the help in SLC!
Thanks. Debbie On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 8:19 AM 'Kathy Cardoza' via Azores Genealogy < [email protected]> wrote: > Cheri > > I’m sure you’re right but I am someone that has two Manuels, both lived, > and had families…… Not sure if I’m the example you mentioned or not? When I > first discovered this, I assumed the first Manuel had died. I knew the > second Manuel had lived …. he married the sister of his oldest brother, > Francisco, so I never researched that first Manuel. Eventually, after being > contacted by another researcher, we realized that HER Manuel was the first > one in the family, the one I had assumed had died. (He had changed his last > name to Rodgers, possibly to distinguish him from his brother.) This was > proven, by the way, with, among other things, his obituary that listed all > his siblings, including my Francisco Pereira da Rosa! Pretty exciting and a > reminder to all of us to keep an open mind and make no assumptions without > proving or disproving them. Oh, also, this family had two Maria Delfinas! > Thanks a lot, da Rosas, lol. I have never seen this in any other of my > families with Manuels. > > Kathy > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Visit the Azores GenWeb Project: > http://www.worldgenweb.org/azrwgw/ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > On Jul 21, 2019, at 6:27 AM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > > So if you see a Manuel, first of the name, then see a Manuel, 2nd of the > name, the 1st one has died. Yes, someone on this list has found 2 Manuels, > both married and had kids. However, I'd say that was pretty rare. So > generally, the first boy has died. Cheri > > > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/855432A7-BA76-4C45-8C5C-917A5FF09C7A%40me.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/855432A7-BA76-4C45-8C5C-917A5FF09C7A%40me.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/azores/CAJ7050uMsMrJS8%3DFU3v9%2Bwf4yRq2ppuVNAerU2rwzn6_x-GOXw%40mail.gmail.com.
