RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Casamentos records in Furnas, Sao Miguel

Who are you looking for in Maia? I may have a connection for you. JR -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Santa Maria Island - Parochial Records

All that information is also available in the catalog site from DRAC: http://www.arquivos.azores.gov.pt/results?lg=Fondsp0=CompleteUnitIdo0=11v0=PT%2fBPARPD%2fPRQ%2fPVPT%25 João Ventura http://tombo.pt On Thursday, 27 February 2014 00:49:42 UTC+1, rchaves wrote: Hello Marcio, Thank you, I

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Family o Manuel AMARAL, owner of Portuguese restaurant in Cambridge, MA

Hello, An FYI for researchers: http://www.restaurantcasaportugal.com/about.html I'm pretty sure we haven't been to that restaurant, but we did have breakfast at a Portuguese bakery a few yrs. ago.I don't remember, but it could have been on the Cambridge / Somerville line.Large

[AZORES-Genealogy] Widower married within three months (?).

Does it say the deceased persons name is Maria Roza (?) Da Silva, age 30, Wife of Antonio de Mello.Based on her death date and his remarriage see second link below, he would have remarried THREE months after the first wife died! I copied his marriage below; just in case I misread the

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Widower married within three months (?).

Maria Elena, The deceased's name is Maria Pereira da Silva. Do you have Maria's marriage record with Antonio de Melo? That would be helpful in determining if you have the write couple. Yes, it was common for remarriages to occur in such a short time period. On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:56 PM,

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Widower married within three months (?).

Dear Mara- thank you once again for enlightening me. Yes I got the marriage certificate of Antonio and Maria and now I know his parents too. In Maria's obituary it said something about Antonio buying masses(?) and her father, Joao DA Sylva, buying masses or something like that. Does that

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Widower married within three months (?).

Maria Lima, Yes, people would pay (and still do pay) for a Mass to be said for the repose of someone's soul. Or someone's illness. Record the record as Pereira da Silva and use your note or memo or anecdote field to note that the priest used the old spelling of Sylva. Cheri Mello Listowner,

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Widower married within three months (?).

Thanks Cheri- I didn't realize that was an old spelling. Good to know. Maria Elena On Feb 27, 2014, at 10:05 PM, Cheri Mello gfsche...@gmail.com wrote: Maria Lima, Yes, people would pay (and still do pay) for a Mass to be said for the repose of someone's soul. Or someone's illness.