Hello all, yes in response to this discussion...I too have also read
that the Portuguese are the ones who started Europes involvement,
under the order of Prince Henry. I did not record the book I got this
from but in my notes I wrote word for word what it said...
In 1441 it was realized that sea
My children who have azorean godparents were all given the little hand when
they were babies. I was told it was called a figa (that is a phonetic
spelling). It is to ward of the evil eye and those who would try to put a
curse
on you. Anyone who has relatives born in the Azores knows
I don’t know if he is related to my Mariano Furtado b. in the 1870’s, but he
is from Ribeira Grande. My grandfather Antonio Furtado did come here and
then went back in 1931, but my ggrandfather Mariano never came here. My
father’s uncle, Joaquim Furtado did come over in the early 1900’s and
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