[AZORES-Genealogy] GenealogyBank Lookup Request

2013-08-30 Thread E Sharp
I want to thank all the listmembers who offered to do this lookup for me. You're the best!!! E -- 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

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] DNA testing

2013-08-30 Thread laura warhurst
Good morning, Cheri, So sorry I didn't know the last name didn't match. I got remarried so I have different last name. last name is now Pechnik. 289462 is test. Thank you again for your help! On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Cheri Mello gfsche...@gmail.com wrote: Laura, The email address

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] DNA testing

2013-08-30 Thread laura warhurst
Isabella, thank you for the book recommendation! I am going to try to find that book asap!!! On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Isabella Baltar myportuguese...@gmail.comwrote: Laura, you may be interested in reading this book. I'm reading it right now. The Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] DNA testing

2013-08-30 Thread laura warhurst
Cheri, I had not checked my email in a couple of days and when I sent you this earlier email I did not know that when I went into the Ftdna site that there were a few matches in there!! I am really happy to see that! It is a starting point so woo hoo!! I really appreciate how helpful everyone is

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] DNA testing+ Sephardic Jews

2013-08-30 Thread laura warhurst
Shirl, Thank you so much for your help. I have heard that supposedly our line came from Spain. Then to Azores, then some went to New Bedford,Mass, one to Brazil to open a coffee plantation, , some to Calif. It is so difficult to figure out last names since many were changed when they left the

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] DNA testing

2013-08-30 Thread Cheri Mello
Laura W, I need your mother's kit number too. On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:50 AM, laura warhurst laraly...@gmail.com wrote: Good morning, Cheri, So sorry I didn't know the last name didn't match. I got remarried so I have different last name. last name is now Pechnik. 289462 is test. Thank you

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] DNA testing

2013-08-30 Thread laura warhurst
289462 On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Cheri Mello gfsche...@gmail.com wrote: Laura W, I need your mother's kit number too. On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:50 AM, laura warhurst laraly...@gmail.comwrote: Good morning, Cheri, So sorry I didn't know the last name didn't match. I got

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] DNA testing

2013-08-30 Thread laura warhurst
I only tested my mother, I didn't change the name because I wasn't sure how to do last name change on the site for the test since it was registered in my name and not hers'. On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Cheri Mello gfsche...@gmail.com wrote: Laura W, I need your mother's kit number

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] DNA testing

2013-08-30 Thread Cheri Mello
Laura W, Log in. My Account Contact Information. That's where you change it. It asked for the name of the person taking the test when you signed up. It's becoming more and more difficult for me and the other admins to know who we are dealing with and who took the test. I've been telling

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Gonçalves ancestors - Terceira

2013-08-30 Thread Isabella Baltar
Hi Doug, I just checked my genealogy software and found my Pacheco line. I have Francisco Vieira Pacheco married to Anna Maria (both my 5th great grandfather/mother), they were parents of Roza Ignacia Vieira, who married Vicente Jacques de Oliveira (both my 4th great grandfather/mother). I

[AZORES-Genealogy] Portuguese Hawaiian Newspapers online

2013-08-30 Thread luiznoia
You can browse through, but not search a large collection of Hawaiian newspapers in the Portuguese languague here: http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/31854 The following are available - O Luso Hawaiiano (four-page Honolulu weekly, Portuguese, some English). August

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] DNA testing

2013-08-30 Thread laura warhurst
Thank you so much for helping me with this. I originally bought the test with the intention of taking it myself but I thought for research purposes I should get my mother since she is closer to the Azorean relative than me. I am sorry that I messed up. On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Cheri

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Gonçalves_ancestors - Terceira

2013-08-30 Thread pico
Hi Isabella,Yea, that's the line.I need to look more carefully for a connection between us. The one I described leads to that interesting surname of Airoso, but I am only speculating on your link back to about the year 1500.And I don't know your most recent Terceira ancestors, so can't really say

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Gonçalves_ancestors - Terceira

2013-08-30 Thread rcapodc
Doug, Do you know anyone by the name of Airoso in Sac? When I went to teach a Portuguese Genealogy class for Merced Gen. Soc. there was a lady there and her family name was Airoso and her people was from Sacramento. I didn’t think that it could have been that name having never heard of it

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Portuguese Hawaiian Newspapers online

2013-08-30 Thread rcapodc
Eric, Thanks for the info on the Hawaiian newspapers! I have friends from HI and this will help them so much. Rosemarie From: luiznoia Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 12:06 PM To: azores@googlegroups.com Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Portuguese Hawaiian Newspapers online You can browse

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Gonçalves_ancestors - Terceira

2013-08-30 Thread E Sharp
There are many Airoso from the Azores on Ancestry. Here is one: Alvaro Machado Airoso, b. 3/12/1897, Dos Riberos, Azores. I think they listed 699 but there are quite a few duplicates and there are a few family trees and some pictures. There are also quite a few on FamilySearch. E On Fri,

[AZORES-Genealogy] surname AIROSO of Terceira

2013-08-30 Thread pico
The surname AIROSO has several forms as you go back in time in the records.As usual, the S can be Z in the older records, for example. And then it can have the preposition "de" before it to make it "de Airoso." Also, it is usual for it to have a feminine form for ladies, "de Airosa."It is easy to

[AZORES-Genealogy] Family Finder results in (through part of batch 527)

2013-08-30 Thread Cheri Mello
Family Finder (FF) results are in up through part of batch 527. They are behind on mtDNA. Some people are having a hard time with Y-DNA (finding the right region on that Y chromosome). If they are having problems with your DNA and the expected date has expired, there will be a note on your

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Family Finder results in (through part of batch 527)

2013-08-30 Thread Joanne Mercier
I'm in batch 529 so it'll be October before I get my results. That's what I get for waiting until the last minute! ;) Joanne Joanne Medeiros Grota Mercier Researching Bretanha (Medeiros Grota, Benevides, deSouza), Lagoa (Luiz, d'Oliveira Homem) and Rabo de Peixe (Martins Gouveia) --

[AZORES-Genealogy] Domingo's Jose d'Bettencourt and Jose Antonio d'Bettencourt, Graciosa

2013-08-30 Thread Lee
Unfortunately still not off of Graciosa yet with di Mendonca's...discovered today that Francis Antonio di Mendonca and his wife Florinda Baptista d'Bettencourt were the children of Domingo's Jose d'Bettencourt and spouse, Maria Antonia (died before 1818- Francisco's mother) and Florinda's

[AZORES-Genealogy] Andrade and Duarte - Flamengos, Faial

2013-08-30 Thread Lee
Finally found the baptismal record of Adelaide Augusta Andrade born December 21, 1868. She was the daughter of Jose Silveira d'Andrade and wife Luiza da Gloria Garcia. Paternal grandparents were Antonio Silveira d'Azevedo and Abaria Luiza and the maternal grandparents were Francisco Garcia

[AZORES-Genealogy] Andrade and Duarte - Flamengos, Faial

2013-08-30 Thread Lee
Finally found the baptismal record of Adelaide Augusta Andrade born December 21, 1868. She was the daughter of Jose Silveira d'Andrade and wife Luiza da Gloria Garcia. Paternal grandparents were Antonio Silveira d'Azevedo and Abaria Luiza and the maternal grandparents were Francisco Garcia

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Family Finder results in (through part of batch 527)

2013-08-30 Thread Mary Bordi
I only have one new FF match in the Azores group from this batch. But my mom has a bunch! She has a total of twelve besides me--those are not all from this batch. Her results came out in July. She is half Azorean, I'm only a quarter. Having her test was a great idea! So glad more are testing.

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Family Finder results in (through part of batch 527)

2013-08-30 Thread rcapodc
Getting excited, I have two more matches in on 8/29 on the FF. One a Cardoza one Machado. My cousins kit is 528 batch and it says 2 October for that bunch to be finished. Rosemarie From: Mary Bordi Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 9:58 PM To: azores@googlegroups.com Subject: Re:

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Andrade and Duarte - Flamengos, Faial

2013-08-30 Thread pico
Hi Lee,I have run across a Garcia Duarte family of Flamengos in my research.The names are not exactly the same, but must be closely related. Maybe one older generation back might be where they link.The family I was researching married into a family with Piedade, Pico ancestors, thus my

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Family Finder results in (through part of batch 527)

2013-08-30 Thread pico
Yea, I got three matches and my father got four on this latest batch.I'd be curious to hear from anyone who matches someone with the last name ANG.Write me privately, if so.Doug da Rocha HolmesSacramento, CaliforniaPico Terceira Genealogist916-550-1618www.dholmes.com -- For options, such as

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Family Finder results in (through part of batch 527)

2013-08-30 Thread Cheri Mello
Doug, He needs to join the Azores project. Cheri On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:13 PM, p...@dholmes.com wrote: Yea, I got three matches and my father got four on this latest batch. I'd be curious to hear from anyone who matches someone with the last name ANG. Write me privately, if so. Doug

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Andrade and Duarte - Flamengos, Faial

2013-08-30 Thread Lee Estep
Hi Doug, So far what I have below is all that I've found, hope to find more tomorrow before I head home on Sunday. They are the ancestors if my cousins wife who was a Mendence (Mendonca). Her father, Albert is still living there in CA. Alberta mother was a Laureanno from Faial Lee Sent