Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Help Identifying Pico Ancestry

2013-04-16 Thread goodwnos
Paul, I may have found your randmother. At least a possibility. Check out the following website: http://www.ghp.ics.uminho.pt/geneweb/gwd.exe?b=Lajes;lang=en;p=jose+brum;n=alvernaz Its from CITCEM (formerly called NEPS) which contains abstracts from the parish records. In this c

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Help Identifying Pico Ancestry

2013-04-16 Thread pico
Hi Paul,I thought maybe you just got your test results back and that I should check to see if we have a Family Finder match, but I see there is no DNA connection.However, I believe we are related. If I'm not mistaken, you have an ancestor from Terceira and we share many common ancestors from that l

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Help Identifying Pico Ancestry

2013-04-16 Thread eric edgar
Paul, Try searching them here. http://www.ghp.ics.uminho.pt/genealogias.html This the NEPS site people mention. You have to take your search parish by parish Eric Edgar On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Paul Rapoza wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have 3rd great-grandparents who lived in the New

[AZORES-Genealogy] Help Identifying Pico Ancestry

2013-04-16 Thread Paul Rapoza
Hi everyone, I have 3rd great-grandparents who lived in the New Bedford, Mass area that I've had no luck tracing back to the Azores yet. According to some census and death records of children, they hailed from Pico but I do not know the village. It is likely one or both of them came from Lajes

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Translation request for a Baptism

2013-04-16 Thread Bill T
Yes I did enlarge, Perhaps its my glasses ?? I do try to make the documents out before asking for help on this site, I do appreciate your help Thank you On Tuesday, April 16, 2013 8:45:33 AM UTC-7, Dano wrote: > Actually, this record is not all that bad, the script is clear albei

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Isabel de castro

2013-04-16 Thread GENEVA
I have some notes that i took from various publications and I have also see the information on several genealogy web sites and from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Pedro's ancestry goes back apparently 4 generations to Alvara Gil Cabral who was married to Maria Eanes Loureiro aka Maria Pires d

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Anglican/Americanized names

2013-04-16 Thread Cheri Mello
I recommend NOT changing a typo or misspelling in the subject line. It breaks the thread and then no one can find what they want in the archive. And I can spend an hour looking for an answer for someone that I know we discussed only a couple of weeks ago and I can't find it because people change t

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Anglican/Americanized names

2013-04-16 Thread John Vasconcelos
*Just a trivial point on the Subject Title. It should be Anglicized/Americanized. Don't mean to be a nit-picker. Anglican is the name of a religion. * *John Vasconcelos* On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:53 AM, gomes.ances...@gmail.com < gomes.ances...@gmail.com> wrote: > Paul, > > I wonder if that is

[AZORES-Genealogy] Azores property

2013-04-16 Thread Marie
This is a bit off topic; but I was wondering if there is any way to determine who now owns a certain piece of property from here in the US that used to belong to my great-grandfather in Sao Jorge, OR must this be done in person in the actual concelho or freguesia. Who would I contact ?? Than

[AZORES-Genealogy] Isabel de castro

2013-04-16 Thread Dano
According to Frutuoso, the wife of Pedro Alvares Cabral was Isabel Bicudo, dau. of Vicente Anes Bicudo. What is your source for Isabel de Castro and Alfonso (Afonso)??? -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and vis

[AZORES-Genealogy] Translation request for a Baptism

2013-04-16 Thread Dano
Actually, this record is not all that bad, the script is clear albeit somewhat light. I was able to read most of it w/o any enhancement. Did you try to enlarge the image? Anyway, the baptism is dated 10-Jul-1864, Sao Pedro de Nordestinho. Child is Jacintho, first of name, legitimate son of Joa