Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Information on Pires

2017-03-08 Thread Cheri Mello
The Brazil/Brasil list on Rootsweb appears to be largely inactive (maybe they went to Yahoo or Google Groups) http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/BRA/BRAZIL.html Maybe FamilySearch has some resources: https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Brazil_Genealogy Or Cyndi's List: http://www.cyndisli

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Information on Pires

2017-03-08 Thread Rosemarie Capodicci
Are you asking for the Pires familiy in Brazil or in the Azores?? Rosemarie rcap...@gmail.com Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Gordon Soares wrote: > I have several great grandparents of t

[AZORES-Genealogy] Information on Pires

2017-03-08 Thread Gordon Soares
I have several great grandparents of the Pires family but can’t find much information about them. It appears they might have been prominent in the early days of Brazil in the 1500’s to early or mid 1600’s. Does anyone know the history of the Pires families around that time. I have particular int