> Eliseu, Would these documents, Proclamas, be what we call in the USA, the Banns? Banns would be posted and read for about 3 weeks before the marriage.
Thanks, Rosemarie Hi Group! > > Try to find out where are the documentation of the PROCLAMAS for that time > period of missing marriages. If you can find where these documents are > there is a possibility of recovering the marriages info. In Ribeira Grande > the documents of the PROCLAMAS are searchable at the Municipal Library... > > I will try to ask ... No promisses though! Most of the times people from > outside get more then we locals do! > > > Eliseu Pacheco da Silva > > > No dia 19/10/2012, às 04:18, Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com> escreveu: > >> Marcio, >> >> About 1775-1779. I have it written down somewhere, but I haven't >> unpacked that box since my move last summer. Shirley Allegre knows. >> Shirley do you remember which years are missing from Sao Pedro in Vila >> Franca? >> >> When Shirley and I went to the archive, we asked to see the book. We >> looked to see if any pages were loose, or the loose ones were bound in >> that back after they fell out. No such luck. The probably fell out in >> the 1800s and were lost and then the book was rebound in the 1900s. >> >> Shirley and I (and a couple of other list members) are stuck because our >> ancestors married in Sao Pedro in the late 1770s. Argh! >> 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." > > -- > 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." -- 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."
