Interestingly, Betalbatim has the oldest records of births, deaths and baptisms at the Archives Department in Panjim. I did access a lot of information whilst researching my family tree history, as my father's side is from Cotawaddo, Betalbatim and the oldest book, just repaired, dates back to 1750's soon after the inquisition period. However, it is hardly readable... but managed to reach 1790's on our family tree. I have found very interesting entries of all sorts, some shocking, others hilarious - great reading, better than Netflix! Betalbatim seemed to be a cool place to live at the time!🙂 Whilst on the task, I did interview some of my distant relatives just by knocking on random doors as nearly everybody there is a Cota or Cotta... and found anecdotes dating back my late grandfather's youth days, the late Maestro Jose Santana Cota, way back in 1920's... before he migrated to Bombay to join the musical scene of Bollywood film industry and then back to Goa. Good luck if you are going to produce a book on the Betalbatim village, I would definitely be interested in buying a signed copy! Regards, Joao Paulo Cota ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> Sent: 11 November 2023 06:06 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [GRN] Re: Research on Betalbatim
Aleixo Costa's work is now in four volumes. The fourth (a post-1961 update) was published by Broadway, Panjim. The other three came out from Macau, for which reason can be hard to access, except in libraries. Useful work, interesting, comprehensive and well printed. Lots of links to Betalbatim here: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=betalbatim ... but I do not think this village has a book on it (as yet). FN On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 at 11:31, John de Figueiredo <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Aleixo Manuel da Costa lists the birthplaces of many of the writers whose bios he compiled. You may consider going through his “Dicionario da Literatura Goesa” published in 1998 in 3 volumes. John M. de Figueiredo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAMCR53KHHkL9BfETa9ZDRcXzTNMq8iCZgbp2zWOX5zrUYhp-rg%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/CAMCR53KHHkL9BfETa9ZDRcXzTNMq8iCZgbp2zWOX5zrUYhp-rg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" 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/goa-research-net/GV2P195MB216121F3C9D1E6947CE3CC2C82ADA%40GV2P195MB2161.EURP195.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM.
