Recognition and gratitude should be given to Cliff Pereira. I, myself, only found out about this portion of history from a very caring Uncle of mine.
One should not ignore the recommendations made in the said article. Namely, (1.) digitising records and making those records avaiable to the public. Cliff is correct in his assertion that it is the third, fourth or sometimes even fifth generation Goan who is born abroad that doesn't speak Konkani (or Portuguese) and has only a very rudimentary knowledge of the rest of Goan history, and is really trying to reclaim some of that, and those links with Goa. By implementing this idea, it would make it easier for people like myself to research their family background; (2.) a website dedicated to Goan family history. I only know of one website ( http://www.goan.name/ ) that allows a user to build a genealogy tree. It would be intersting to see more users enter information on this website. On a similar note, does anyone know what kind of information I may find at the Xavier's Historic Research Centre in Alto-Provorim? Regards, GKB __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page � Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com
