Judy G, There are people on this list that have learned to read by looking at some sample documents and then picking a few words out here and there and asking for help on this list. The sample documents on the Azores GenWeb are here: http://goo.gl/YlQiL (Scroll down to Part 3 to learn to read).
If you don't want to learn to read, you can hire someone to do it for you. A list of researchers can be found on the Azores GenWeb. All are on this list too. http://goo.gl/0zbYL The squiggly "a" - those are diacritics. If you want to use them, you can check to see how to make your computer keyboard do it - you'd somehow activate it and then you press a certain key (function or Ctrl or Alt on a PC) and then you would cycle through the letter "a" until you get ã. You can also use Character Map (on a PC running XP: Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map. You would then click the letter you want, click select, then click copy, then paste it into your document. Or you can look up codes and memorize them. Hold the Alt key on a PC and type 0227 on the NUMBER keypad and you get the "a" with the tilde: ã. But I'm kind of weird and like to memorize numbers (that's the math teacher in me). And this is different for a Mac. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- 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, 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 area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership."
