[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Vicente Furtado Vila Franca do Campo

2014-07-03 Thread Pam Santos
No not mine I just came across the record and remembered someone was researching Vicente Furtado. My Furtado is Valentino Furtado from Achadinha On Thursday, July 3, 2014, Richard Francis Pimentel < rfrancispimen...@comcast.net> wrote: > *Joao Furtado and Elena Rosa are my 4th Great Grandparents

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Vicente Furtado Vila Franca do Campo

2014-07-03 Thread Richard Francis Pimentel
Joao Furtado and Elena Rosa are my 4th Great Grandparents so Vicente Furtado and Anna Furtada would be my 5th Great grandparents. Pam if this is a new find for you this looks like the connection we were looking for in the Family Finder Rick Richard Francis Pimentel Epping, NH From

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Questions on differences in format on records CCA

2014-07-03 Thread Isabella Baltar
Sure João, if you carefully read my post, I mentioned "until XVIII century". Isabella Baltar myportuguesegen.blogspot.com On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 9:20 AM, João Ventura wrote: > Hello all, > > Just a word of caution here. Formally, the use of "Dom/Dona" is indeed a > royal prvilege, a bit like t

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Questions on differences in format on records CCA

2014-07-03 Thread aportugee via Azores Genealogy
Joao; Thanks for this insight. I’ll have to check the ages of the women being referred to as “Dona”. I think one of them is consistently referred to in that manner in the various documents I’ve found her in. Will have to look again. Again, thanks, Sam in SC Sent from Windows Mail .go

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Arquivo Nacional Torre do Tombo - Lisbon Research - Unexpected Error Message

2014-07-03 Thread João Ventura
Hi E, Most likely the Lisbon District Archive server was down at that time. It seems to be OK now.. If you're still having problems, please provide the web page address that gives you that error. João Ventura http://tombo.pt/en On Thursday, 3 July 2014 02:45:42 UTC+2, E Sharp wrote: > > Joao V

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Capitao - Captain: What might this title refer to?

2014-07-03 Thread João Ventura
Hi all, Indeed, as John indicated these would be the Captain of the local "Companhia de Ordenanças". Which mostly meant someone was ordering others around. Most of these others were local peasants with a pitchfork as their best "weapon", and they received little to no training. So when the pira

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Questions on differences in format on records CCA

2014-07-03 Thread João Ventura
Hello all, Just a word of caution here. Formally, the use of "Dom/Dona" is indeed a royal prvilege, a bit like the English "Sir". However, somewhere in the 19th century it became costumary to call every woman a "Dona", after they became older (respect for elders, yada yada...). So just becaus

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Ginetes marriage in records for Mosteiros (Raposo again)?

2014-07-03 Thread 'John Raposo' via Azores Genealogy
Sete Cidades and its church, (S. Nicolau) is part of the Parish of Ginetes, and its church, is a mission (of sorts) of the Ginetes parish church. I do not see a separate set of books for Sete Cidades/S. Nicolau, so perhaps it is still not a separate parish. Várzea was a part of Ginetes. It's c

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Ginetes marriage in records for Mosteiros (Raposo again)?

2014-07-03 Thread Margaret Vicente
The marriage record reads: "nesta igreja de Sao Nicolau sufraganea da Paroquial de Sao Sebastiao do lugar dos Ginetes" Translating to "in this church of S. Nicolau suffragan/subordinate of S. Sebastiao's Parish of Ginetes'| On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:29 PM, IslandRoutes < insearchofthehumanspi..

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Capitao - Captain: What might this title refer to?

2014-07-03 Thread 'John Raposo' via Azores Genealogy
The islands had local militia's that were responsible for different areas of each island. They were headed by a captain. You will also find the term Sargento used for a lower officer of these militias. On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 7:35 PM, tanya808smith wrote: Hello, I just was going ove