Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Arrifes baptisms

2014-07-30 Thread João Ventura
Hi Rick, It's slightly more complicated than that. March 1911 was the cutoff date for the law that required all priests to surrender their parish records to the state. After that, the government-run Civil Registry came into effect, and for that one there's a separate book each year, and the

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] How to format names on family trees?

2014-07-30 Thread João Ventura
Rick, The GEDCOM standard (and by extension any decent Genealogy program) should support the notion of a Surname prefix. This 'de' is a prime example of a surname prefix. Unfortunately, GEDCOM doesn't really expect multiple surnames. João Ventura http://tombo.pt/en On Wednesday, 30 July 2014

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Posting Family Tree on Family Tree DNA

2014-07-30 Thread Richard Francis Pimentel
Yes I know there is an issue with the place names at one time they were posting Ok but the IT guys did something and have not fixed it yet. Some of my older Trees are showing OK but the ones in the last year are missing the place names. Rick Richard Francis Pimentel Epping, NH

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] curious as to what this says-transcription help

2014-07-30 Thread MaryAnn Santos
This is a rough translation off the top of my head. Correction from someone who is fully fluent in portuguese will help you make sense of it. MaryAnn On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Nicole Rodriques rodriqu...@gmail.com wrote:

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Arrifes baptisms

2014-07-30 Thread Richard Francis Pimentel
Thank you Joao, I knew that some where they had to be over 100 years old. Another question that could be asked is do the churches also keep records? I know in some countries this is done. It would seem to me that they would as a matter of church record. Would you know the disposition of

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Records for Jacinta Teves 1860

2014-07-30 Thread brownat68
Cheri, Sorry about all the confusion. I uploaded my gedcom again. Let me know if you see any problems. Todd On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 6:05:12 PM UTC-4, Cheri Mello wrote: Todd, Too many records all at once. I'm confused. I logged into your DNA page, your mom's and your uncle's to try

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Records for Jacinta Teves 1860

2014-07-30 Thread brownat68
Thank you very much! Major question solved. The relationship between my mothers family and the Jesse's Todd On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 7:16:12 PM UTC-4, JR wrote: http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-PD-SAOJOSE-C-1870-1879/SMG-PD-SAOJOSE-C-1870-1879_item1/P273.html The

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Records for Jacinta Teves 1860

2014-07-30 Thread brownat68
Thanks for all the information everyone! Todd On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 9:15:57 PM UTC-4, Cheri Mello wrote: Geez, I'm glad you got all that figured out. I just must be too tired to figure it out! Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente,

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Arrifes baptisms

2014-07-30 Thread Elizabeth Migliori
Hi Joao So how would I go about getting birth information for April 4 1911? Liz On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:12 AM, João Ventura j...@venturas.org wrote: Hi Rick, It's slightly more complicated than that. March 1911 was the cutoff date for the law that required all priests to surrender their

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Posting Family Tree on Family Tree DNA

2014-07-30 Thread Linda Jardin
I want to start a gedcom and get it on ftdna, is someone able to direct me? From: azores@googlegroups.com [mailto:azores@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of dadt...@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 5:45 PM To: azores@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Posting Family Tree on

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Arrifes baptisms

2014-07-30 Thread Cheri Mello
Liz, For Arrifes, you write to the Civil Registry in Ponta Delgada with the birth date. They don't do searches for you. The workaround would be to find an older sibling born before 1911 and continue your genealogy back from there. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca,

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Posting Family Tree on Family Tree DNA

2014-07-30 Thread Cheri Mello
Linda J, We'd need to know your genealogy software program for specific directions, but generally it's FileExport and you pick Gedcom from the choices. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- For options, such as

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Posting Family Tree on Family Tree DNA

2014-07-30 Thread Linda Jardin
I use Ancestry.com From: azores@googlegroups.com [mailto:azores@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cheri Mello Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:57 AM To: Azores Genealogy Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Posting Family Tree on Family Tree DNA Linda J, We'd need to know your genealogy software

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Posting Family Tree on Family Tree DNA

2014-07-30 Thread Cheri Mello
Here are the directions to make a Gedcom from Ancestry.com. Scroll down almost half way where it says Downloading a Gedcom. http://goo.gl/gBhlyf Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- For options, such as changing

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Arrifes baptisms

2014-07-30 Thread João Ventura
Hi Rick, The parish books from 1911 to nowadays will either be still in the local church or in the Diocesian Archive (for Azores that would be in Angra). Most likely they are in the church. In 1911, the church records stopped being the 'legal' records, so the government no longer cares about

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Arrifes baptisms

2014-07-30 Thread João Ventura
Liz, As Cheri said, you need to contact the 'Registo Civil' (or the local church), but you need to know the date of the event, and the name of the person and their parents. I've gone to the ones in Faro and in Santa Cruz das Flores, in person and with a list of people I'm searching for, and

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Records for Jacinta Teves 1860

2014-07-30 Thread Cheri Mello
Todd, It came through much better that time. Fantastic! You probably need to reupload on your mom's kit and other kits that you manage too. Cheri On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:19 AM, brownat68 browna...@gmail.com wrote: Cheri, Sorry about all the confusion. I uploaded my gedcom again. Let

[AZORES-Genealogy] Translation help: Santa Maria

2014-07-30 Thread aportugee via Azores Genealogy
http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMA-VP-SAOPEDRO-B-1845-1853/SMA-VP-SAOPEDRO-B-1845-1853_item1/P23.html Left hand page, top Antonio I think I've got most all of the body of the record translated correctly but; can anyone check for me to see if towards the bottom it says the

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Translation help: Santa Maria

2014-07-30 Thread Hermano C. Pires
The godparents are indeed uncle and aunt of the baptised (maternal). By the way the priest may also be a member of this family (my own comente). The right margin notes refer to certificates (copies) being made and the left margin I believe refers to Antonio Soares Coelho's death on 18 January

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Translation help: Santa Maria

2014-07-30 Thread Hermano C. Pires
The godparents are indeed uncle and aunt of the baptised (maternal). By the way the priest may also be a member of this family (my own coment). The right margin notes refer to certificates (copies) being made and the left margin I believe refers to Antonio Soares Coelho's death on 18 January 1925

[AZORES-Genealogy] Pedro Miguel, Faial Obit, Translation Help Please

2014-07-30 Thread aportugee via Azores Genealogy
2nd one down, right hand page. http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/FAL-HT-PEDROMIGUEL-O-1763-1822/FAL-HT-PEDROMIGUEL-O-1763-1822_item1/P149.html This is an obit. I think I make out: Jose Francisco married with Teresa Ignacia ?? freguesia of Nossa Senhora de Adjuda,

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] entering names into FTM

2014-07-30 Thread 'celeste perry' via Azores Genealogy
I have Family Tree Maker 2006 or 16.  Putting the \\ at the end of the entire name (first, middle, da, de, or do) and the last name puts the first name as the name by which the index is filed.  Again, it still takes time to go through all the Maria names; however, I have a better chance of

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Translation help: Santa Maria

2014-07-30 Thread aportugee via Azores Genealogy
Indeed, it does help Hermano, thank you. Usually, I have not seen notations of certificates being made. Was there a reason stated? Yes, I noticed that the priest seems to be in this same line. Guess I’ll have to find his birth too! As always, thanks for your help, Sam Sent from

[AZORES-Genealogy] great grandmother

2014-07-30 Thread blackice430
Hi Everyone,   I would like to share with you a find that I just found today. My grandson Nickolas and I went to St John's cemetery in Dartmouth/ New Bedford Ma today, and found my great grandmother's grave today. After finding her death certificate with very little info that I had on line

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] great grandmother

2014-07-30 Thread E Sharp
Pat, We did this for a young brother and a baby sister a few years ago at St. John's who were buried there in the 1920's. Rex Monument across the street from the cemetery did an excellent job for us. We went to the cemetery office and they told us where they were buried and the grave #. We had

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Translation help: Santa Maria

2014-07-30 Thread Hermano C. Pires
The certificate notations do not usually state the reason. Some of the reasons may be: passport, identity booklet (pre present), identity card, marriage and as many as the judicial would deem needed. From: azores@googlegroups.com To: azores@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy]

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] great grandmother

2014-07-30 Thread Liz Migliori
Wonderful story Sent from my iPhone On Jul 30, 2014, at 9:45 PM, blackice...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Everyone, I would like to share with you a find that I just found today. My grandson Nickolas and I went to St John's cemetery in Dartmouth/ New Bedford Ma today, and found my great

[AZORES-Genealogy] St. John's Cemetery (New Bedford, Massachusetts) book

2014-07-30 Thread Cheri Mello
The now defunct American Portuguese Genealogical and Historical Society (APGHS), which was based out of Taunton, Massachusetts published a book of cemetery burials from St. John's Cemetery in New Bedford, MA. I don't know if they walked the cemetery and recorded what they saw or if they had

[AZORES-Genealogy] Brick Wall on Reis Family

2014-07-30 Thread BOBCAMSCPW via Azores Genealogy
Hi Everyone, I am looking for some ideas on trying to find family members of my Grandmother Rosa Correa Reis, I keep hitting a brick wall on them. I am going off memory on this, but I know that she had several family members that lived in the US. She had 10 brothers and sisters and from a

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Brick Wall on Reis Family

2014-07-30 Thread Cheri Mello
Bob C, Try the Massachusetts records on Family Search: https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list/?page=1countryId=52 The Mass State Secretary has this searchable database: http://www.sec.state.ma.us/vitalrecordssearch/ Others may have even more ideas for you. Cheri Mello Listowner,

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Brick Wall on Reis Family

2014-07-30 Thread Pam Santos
Try to find an obituary of one of the siblings. That us how I found 5 if the other siblings if ancestor who lived in Hawaii and the 5 lived in Fall River,MA which was stated in obituary On Wednesday, July 30, 2014, Cheri Mello gfsche...@gmail.com wrote: Bob C, Try the Massachusetts records

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Brick Wall on Reis Family

2014-07-30 Thread pico
Bob,Maybe you can find them in Diario de Noticias. I don't have the website handy, but I'm sure others do.I have found many of my family members there.Doug da Rocha HolmesPico Terceira Genealogist=Get ready for NFL Fantasy Football and join me in the