Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Happy 7th Birthday to the Azores Genealogy List!

2012-10-11 Thread Leanne Anysia
Hey Sam! My family names are too confusing to get into. Suffice it to say, they underwent many (6+) name changes while on the island. As you may have discovered while searching, names are not permanent in the Azorean culture. :P I started out researching my mother's family (Silva and Freitas)

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Happy 7th Birthday to the Azores Genealogy List!

2012-10-11 Thread Sam Koester
9:52 PM To: azores@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Happy 7th Birthday to the Azores Genealogy List! Hey Sam! My family names are too confusing to get into. Suffice it to say, they underwent many (6+) name changes while on the island. As you may have discovered while

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Happy 7th Birthday to the Azores Genealogy List!

2012-10-09 Thread Sandra Dauer
Cheri Thank you for leading this group to 1000 members...amazing Sandra Valine Dauer On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Cheri Mello gfsche...@gmail.com wrote: Len, I don't have a web site. I run this group. Any writing that I do is on the Azores GenWeb here: goo.gl/W6Z7R I usually try to

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Happy 7th Birthday to the Azores Genealogy List!

2012-10-05 Thread Leonard Silva
Congratulations on the anniversary and on a very well run site. As a newcomer, might I suggest a sticky with a list of your other sites and some of the more common resources available. I keep finding new resources in some of the old posts here that have been very helpful. Len Silva On

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Happy 7th Birthday to the Azores Genealogy List!

2012-10-05 Thread Cheri Mello
Len, I don't have a web site. I run this group. Any writing that I do is on the Azores GenWeb here: goo.gl/W6Z7R I usually try to post the direct link to the site as well as the main site. Everything I've written is there. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Happy 7th Birthday to the Azores Genealogy List!

2012-09-27 Thread Sam Koester
Leanne; What are your family names on Faial and which village did they come from? Sam in CA -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest,

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Happy 7th Birthday to the Azores Genealogy List!

2012-09-26 Thread Terri
Your passion for Geneology led to this. You inspire me. Your site has helped me find family members that I didn't even know I had. Thank you sooo much Cheri. Happy Birthday to the Azores Geneology group. Imagine!...if we all got together...this would be one heck of a party! :) -- To

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Happy 7th Birthday to the Azores Genealogy List!

2012-09-26 Thread Dano
Congrats Cheri, its been a long road hasn't it Seven years here + how many on Portuguese Ancestry, Rootsweb, Island routes - and all the rest... Enjoy your day ~~ On

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Happy 7th Birthday to the Azores Genealogy List!

2012-09-26 Thread Lee
Thank you Cheri! Without you having started this group, I never would have found the ancestors that I have found and would not have met all the wonderful people on the site who have helped me when I've been stuck it's a little hard for a legally blind person to read some of those documents.

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Happy 7th Birthday to the Azores Genealogy List!

2012-09-26 Thread Mike
I got turned onto this group by Cheri herself, when I wrote an email to the FTDNA website she responded to me, we spkoe on the phone for over an hour and I learned a lot, soon after I was using this group, I had my DNA tested which I never thought of before. In the short time I've been a member