Hello Selma,
I just read your request. Did you manage to get a translator?
If not, perhaps I can help. My mother tongue is Portuguese (Portugal). I worked 
with translating documents (Portuguese-English-Portuguese).
Regards,
Carolina 

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> On 30 Sep 2023, at 21:43, John de Figueiredo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Dear Selma,
> I would have helped you but unfortunately have been struggling with a back 
> pain that comes and goes, being investigated. This made me reduce my 
> activities to a minimum. You are obviously committed to your research and 
> serious about it and this is impressive. As you know, I grew up speaking 
> Portuguese and later learned English. I thought English was harder than 
> Portuguese. You may want to take a course on Portuguese and master it. The 
> important thing is to learn the vocabulary. The rules for Portuguese are 
> straight forward and there are very few exceptions.
> Best wishes and warm regards,
> John
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On Sep 30, 2023, at 10:08 AM, 'Carvalho' via Goa-Research-Net 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>> 
>> Thank you very much Frederick, Victor and Sandra. You are already on my list 
>> :-)
>> 
>> Warm wishes,
>> Selma
>> 
>> 
>> On Friday, 29 September 2023 at 16:28:06 BST, sandra lobo 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 
>> Dear Selma. As you know I can help with some pages.
>> 
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>> De: 'Victor Rangel-ribeiro' via Goa-Research-Net 
>> <[email protected]>
>> Enviado: 29 de setembro de 2023 15:53
>> Para: 'Carvalho' via Goa-Research-Net <[email protected]>
>> Assunto: Re: [GRN] Lisbon archive Portuguese translator Your help needed
>>  
>> Dear Selma, send me five (5) pages to begin with. If I can read them easily, 
>> I'll help translate more. Thanks for taking on this wonderful project!
>> Warmest regards,
>> Victor
>> 
>> On Friday, September 29, 2023 at 07:01:21 AM EDT, 'Carvalho' via 
>> Goa-Research-Net <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Dear members,
>> 
>> I returned from a visit to a Lisbon archive with nearly 1000 pages copied. 
>> My reading of Portuguese is functional but not advanced. So of those I will 
>> need at least 700 pages translated. If you know of any Portuguese translator 
>> please do ask them to email me at [email protected] Must be willing to 
>> work at a very reasonable per page rate.
>> 
>> Other than that, if anyone here can translate a page of two, please do also 
>> email me. Even if I can get a 100 of the pages translated free of cost, it 
>> will be a huge relief for me. These are documents spanning back to 1800s but 
>> both the writing and the scanned pages are not too difficult to decipher. 
>> 
>> Many, many thanks and I look forward to many people offering to help with 
>> this important project of a lung of Goan history entirely undocumented, and 
>> without any secondary sources, except for a few books I myself have written 
>> on it. Even if you can commit to just one page, it will help a lot, but if 
>> you can commit to 3-4 pages, that would be great.
>> 
>> Take care,
>> Selma
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