Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Abreviation list

2014-08-14 Thread Pam Santos
Thanks for posting that Eliseu. I think that will be a great help for beginners wish I had it when I first started out. On Tuesday, August 12, 2014, p...@dholmes.com wrote: Good one, Eliseu. :-) And by the way, I didn't study your list carefully, but didn't notice any mistakes there. No

[AZORES-Genealogy] Estrela, Casamentos 1839-1853 for Bernardino Jose de Andrade Escolstica Maria

2014-08-14 Thread Paul
Hello, Would someone be so kind and translate this casamentos of my GGG grandparents Bernardino Jose de Andrade Escolastica Maria do Espirito Santo. Parents are Joao Ignacio de Andrade Barbara Jacintha, and Jose da Silva Florinda de Jesus. I believe the year is 1840 (but not 100% sure).

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Estrela, Casamentos 1839-1853 for Bernardino Jose de Andrade Escolstica Maria

2014-08-14 Thread Richard Francis Pimentel
The date is 28 Dec 1840. He was Baptized in the Church of NS Annunciacao in Villa Porto on the Island of Santa Maria Rick Richard Francis Pimentel Epping, NH From: azores@googlegroups.com [mailto:azores@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 4:24

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Another name.

2014-08-14 Thread Mary Bordi
It may have come from here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porziuncola It would be significant to someone with a devotion to St. Francis. Mary On Wednesday, August 13, 2014, Dano dpai...@gmail.com wrote: I've never seen this name either, Rick, but it looks to me like Perceumciela; I can'

[AZORES-Genealogy] Centro de Conhecimento dos Açores - Registos Paroquiais Grandmothers missing record

2014-08-14 Thread Dolores
My Grandmother Virginia Serpa Bettencourt bap wasn't anywhere. In searching years before and after years I found this. She was not entered in Dec 1889. The uminho people even missed this postscript mention which only gives birth date. She always said dec 10, 1889. Does anyone know what the no

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Family Finder Matches to the British Isles and Ireland

2014-08-14 Thread Melinda
I wonder if this information about inverted segments explains the identical results between you and your father: Are there any exceptions or special cases in how our DNA is inherited that would affect my predicted relationship and range?Yes, there are exceptions to the way inheritance normally

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Estrela, Casamentos 1839-1853 for Bernardino Jose de Andrade Escolstica Maria

2014-08-14 Thread Shirley Allegre
This is what it looks like to me: Bernardino Jose de Andrade X Escolastica Maria do Espirito Santo 28 Dec 1840 Matriz of Senhora da Estrella, village of Ribeira Grande Bernardo Jose de Andrade, age 21, baptised Senhora da Asumpcao, village of Porto, island of Santa Maria (Joze Ignacio de Andrade

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] A Family Finder story.

2014-08-14 Thread Ângela Loura
Hi Nancy. My Grandmother was born in Almagreira and she was also Cabral. I hope you are lucky next time, and hope you enjoyed visiting Santa Maria. Ângela dos Santos Loura 2014-08-09 20:18 GMT+01:00 nancy jean baptiste fishsongf...@hotmail.com: Well Liz you probably will have an amazing

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: What is the first Name?

2014-08-14 Thread Cheri Mello
Repost for Sergio Cominatto: It's Wenceslao, a corrupt spelling of the portuguese name Wenceslau. It's comon to see ao instead of au in old spellings, as Nicolao for Nicolau. Sergio Lopes Cominatto On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Dano dpai...@gmail.com wrote: Groom's name = Manoel de Sam

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Centro de Conhecimento dos Açores - Registos Paroquiais Grandmothers missing record

2014-08-14 Thread Hermano C. Pires
My Two cents worth 4/6-X (4 jun3 1910, this based on other such numbers ) could be the date in which the postscript was entered, and could it be the date of her marriage, or there abouts? The date of her birth was 7 December 1889. Hope that is of help. Hermano Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Centro

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Family Finder Matches to the British Isles and Ireland

2014-08-14 Thread pico
Thank you, Melinda.How fascinating!We can't really know, I suppose, but maybe it's not so rare, either. Maybe it's just as frequent as mutations on the Y line, which could happen in any generation. Maybe I should check my own Y DNA to see if I have introduced a mutation. If I were swimming in

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Family Finder Matches to the British Isles and Ireland

2014-08-14 Thread Cheri Mello
You can't exactly see the sticky segment, but if enough people test, you can see a pattern on the Chromosome map. I've mentioned this before, but it's been awhile. Roberta Estes, genetic genealogist, explained it a couple of times in her blog: http://goo.gl/1TNuX4 and here: http://goo.gl/Gnrwm1

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] USCIS genealogy program

2014-08-14 Thread Cheri Mello
Petition number is 288261. Number 4214379 is just the certificate number. I'm 99% sure that I used the petition number, but those G-1041 forms are quite different than the old form. They want a C number and now that looks like the 4214379 certificate number. You might want to enclose a copy of

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Abreviation list

2014-08-14 Thread Kalani N
On Monday, August 11, 2014 9:53:53 AM UTC-7, Dano wrote: Neither of these lists works for me, Cheri. Eliseu's list differs from the abbreviations I've come across in my research. I'm not sure from what source Mr. Ramos is getting his information, but, there are several inconsistencies in

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Porciúncula

2014-08-14 Thread Kalani N
Only time I've seen Porciuncula was in the name of the LA River. ;) Kalani On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:17:35 PM UTC-7, Doug da Rocha Holmes wrote: Yes, that's the name, Eliseu. It's pretty rare. I have only 15 people in my database with that name. They range from the 1600s to the

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Family Finder Matches to the British Isles and Ireland

2014-08-14 Thread A Faria
From what I gather from what Roberta Estes states is that IBS can be just as useful in identifying which populations one descends from as IBD, the main difference being that IBS is picking up a distant common ancestor and IBD is generally considered to be picking up common ancestry in a

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Family Finder Matches to the British Isles and Ireland

2014-08-14 Thread pico
Good point, Antonio.Either way, you are related to that person.Maybe it happens a lot that large chunks of DNA are passed down and we get these false readings for how close they are. I know it's happening for our Azores ancestors where if I am projected as a 4th cousin, it usually means I'm going

[AZORES-Genealogy] Azorean Huguenot?

2014-08-14 Thread Peter B. Irvine
Greetings from the Chicago area. I am wondering whether anyone knows of a Frenchman who came to Terceira in the late 1600s or early 1700s? I believe he may have married a Sousa (Souza?) and fathered a child named Antonio, who was born c. 1707 and emigrated to Connecticut in 1726.

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Azorean Huguenot?

2014-08-14 Thread pico
I think I heard this story about 15 years ago on the old Rootsweb Azores List.If you are not the same person, you can google it for details.If this is not the same person, maybe you can give more details. I don't remember seeing it, but know foreigners have settled in Terceira and have many

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Have you uploaded your DNA results to GEDMatch.com?

2014-08-14 Thread IslandRoutes
It is interesting to see everyone's experiences with GEDMatch. I'm trying to encourage the researchers on the Portuguese Hawaiian Group on Facebook to upload their data so that more Portuguese researchers will be included. I have several estimated 4th generation matches. I've started emailing

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Gr Gr Grandparents Jacinto Pacheco and Anna Jacinta de Mello marr found in FVC!

2014-08-14 Thread IslandRoutes
In the past week I have gone through the baptismals for 1856-1863 in Fenais da Vera Cruz, Achada, and Algarvia searching for Antonio Pacheco. I came up with a big fat zero. I'm not sure where to look next, if I somehow missed it, or if I should accept that his baptismal is not to be found.

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Have you uploaded your DNA results to GEDMatch.com?

2014-08-14 Thread pico
If you didn't yet try it, take a look also at the Eurogenes Jtest for percentages of Jewish ancestry. It gets more specific than the rest. Then there is one for Africa if you have any African.I'm finding there are many matches who tested with 23andMe and Ancestry, so it's so nice to see who else

[AZORES-Genealogy] Family Finder Gedcom

2014-08-14 Thread Donna Olovson
Is everyone aware the FTDNA GEDCOM uploads are temporarily disabled while they work on a system update. We are asked to Please check back again. I know some matches are waiting for my information, but it has been delayed by the system. -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest,