Paul, Great, and be sure to join the Azores DNA Project on FTDNA (email me at gfscherim at gmail.com if you need directions). And we play wait-and-see. (The longest game ever invented).
Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 3:05 PM Comcast <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank, you for that info,and I sent my DNA two weeks ago. Sorry to say > but just myself and one cousin are the only ones left. All that I know is > on her death certificate it says that she was from St. Michaels and there > is no one I can turn to for any more info. > > Thanks Paul > > Sent from my iPad > > On Aug 15, 2019, at 1:48 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > You have to have a freguesia in order to start researching over there. Sao > Miguel island has over 70 churches to wade through. > > Have you tried every single thing here (and really, I mean every single > thing): > > http://www.worldgenweb.org/azrwgw/research-aids-a---l/finding-your-portuguese/ > > It took me 4 years and 25 documents (going through every single thing I > could find) before I figured out the freguesia. This was all B.C. though > (Before Computers). > > And while you are trying every single thing, you need to do DNA. You just > don't know what you don't know. Suppose your 2nd cousin once removed with a > tree of 10,000 people took a DNA test? That cousin would have your > freguesia and then you wouldn't have to go through every single suggestion > and you could go straight to a freguesia. DNA is on sale this month too: > https://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=AzoresIslands > You want the Family Finder test ($59 USD + $12.95 S&H - includes return > postage back to the lab if you are a U.S. resident). If your mother is > alive, test her. If she is not alive, test one of her siblings. If none of > them are alive, test yourself. > > Good luck! > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, > Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada > > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 10:16 AM Comcast <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I need help badly,and currently looking for my grandmother my mother's >> mother who died here in the USA when my mother was 3 years old. All we know >> about her from her death cert it says that Anna Cabral was the daughter of >> Antonio Cabral Silva and Anna Luciana from St Michaels Azores and she was >> born in 1879. I looked for her birth based on that info and came up empty. >> Currently trying to find a marriage for Antonio and Anna Luciana. Thanks >> for any help from anyone. My email is [email protected] >> >> Thanks,Paul >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On Aug 14, 2019, at 11:13 PM, Margaret Vicente <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Mahalo, Rich. >> >> >> >> Just to say thank you. The great thing about being in a group is that >> all of the other members are also at a ready to help and assist. There are >> a few I could name 😊. None-the-less your email is very much >> appreciated, thank you! >> >> >> >> Happy to assist if and when you will have a question. >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> >> >> Margaret >> >> >> >> *From: *Rich Mueller <[email protected]> >> *Sent: *August 14, 2019 7:10 PM >> *To: *[email protected] >> *Subject: *Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] help >> >> >> >> Margaret, I haven't had to ask a question on my wife's side of our family >> but I have noticed that you are absolutely amazing at helping folks when >> they get stuck. Mahalo! >> >> >> >> *E malama pono* >> >> Rich Mueller >> >> *"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can >> work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those >> acts will be written the history of this generation." - Robert F. Kennedy* >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 2:30 PM Margaret Vicente < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Gordon, >> >> >> >> Found your grandfather in passports 1901, # 329 >> >> >> >> >> http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/PASSAPORTES-FAL-1889-1908/PASSAPORTES-FAL-1889-1908_item1/P146.html >> >> >> >> From their, found their marriage, # 8 right side >> >> >> >> >> http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/PIC-LJ-LAJES-C-1888-1899/PIC-LJ-LAJES-C-1888-1899_item1/P79.html >> >> >> >> Margaret >> >> >> >> *From: *Gordon soares <[email protected]> >> *Sent: *August 14, 2019 4:28 PM >> *To: *[email protected] >> *Subject: *[AZORES-Genealogy] help >> >> >> >> I have found the ship my grandmother immigrated on and the date but can’t >> seem to find the ship passenger list. >> >> >> >> Marcelina Gaspar Soares sailed on SS Dona Maria on June18,1902. >> >> The SS Dona seems to have a few lists but not that date so I am guessing >> it is an arrival date that is on her immigration papers. What do you think? >> >> >> >> I also need to find her husband (my grandfather) Manuel Machado Soares >> who applied for naturalization on June 20,1901 but apparently didn’t >> complete the process since my grandmother (above) indicates on her >> naturalization papers that her husband was not naturalized. Any suggestions >> on how to find his ship or other immigration info for him. 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