[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Help needed reading names on marraige doc.

2012-03-03 Thread JR
There are people with Cabo attached to their last name in the Ribeira Grande area, which includes the parish of Conceicao, Sao Pedro and the matriz of NS da Estrela. JR On Mar 2, 2:56 pm, aryasan...@uol.com.br wrote: Hi, In looking many times to the record it came to me the idea that what was

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Help needed reading names on marraige doc.

2012-03-03 Thread CaraBela
Thank you to all the wonderful people on this list who have helped me with reading these names! I knew I could get home from someone on the list. You never have let me down. I was so excited to find this marriage record get the parents names of the bride groom. I will be looking for the

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Family Finder Success Lesson Learned

2012-03-03 Thread netadosAcores
Cheri, Thank you for this heads up..Patsy and I have a MALE cousin, one of two left that are a direct line with the Vieira-Anselmo line. He has agreed to do the DNA during the next sale. Our family started out with 9 brothers from Sao Miguel, and now we are down to only 2 remaining

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Family Finder Success Lesson Learned

2012-03-03 Thread Cheri Mello
I don't know if they will have a sale in April for DNA Day. The last 3 or so years, they've had the Sizzling Summer Sale. The last 6 or 7 years, they've had the Holiday Sale at the end of the year. Only once they did DNA Day. Don't know how much of a money maker it was for them. Cheri Mello

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] help with search on de Rego, de Viveiros Pertana, Medeiros, Faria

2012-03-03 Thread Cheri Mello
Joanne, There's aren't census records like the United States and Canada. To find baptism, marriage, and death records for people born in the 1870s or before you can order that on film from your local FHC for Ponta Garca and Livramento and look them up. If you go to the Azores, you'll need to go

[AZORES-Genealogy] Book announcement: South of the Cannons: Portuguese Families of Stonington, Connecticut

2012-03-03 Thread Katharine
South of the Cannons: Portuguese Families of Stonington, Connecticut by Henrietta Mello Mayer: http://www.rtp.pt/icmblogs/rtp/comunidades/index.php?k=South-of-the-Cannons--Portuguese-Families-of-Stonington-Connecticut---Henrietta-Mello-Mayer.rtppost=38383 Mello Mayer, Henrietta. South of the

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Need help with record

2012-03-03 Thread Richard Francis Pimentel
Hi Pam, This is what I read on 2 Jan 1744 Francisco Tavares widower of Maria de Pimentel buried in this parish and church married Antonia de Pimentel daughter of Pedro de Ponte being deceased and Teresa Gouveir. I would say that this is them I would guess the scribe may have been confused