Doug, My grandfather is Manuel Pereira Faria - born 20Mar1893 in Silveira, Pico. His father was Manuel Pereira Faria - born in Sao Roque, died 18May1935. If I am reading my great grandfather's marriage record correctly, his parents were Jose Pereira de Faria (born 1Nov1815) and Maria Antonia.
Is this part of your Faria family? Thanks, Linda Leitz On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:00 PM, <p...@dholmes.com> wrote: > Hi Geneva, > > About my Faria family. Mine came from Sao Roque do Pico, but I think > before there it came from Castelo Branco, Faial. I'm going only from > memory, so I might be off. There are a few branches of Faria. One is from > Terceira in the early 1500s, I believe. There is one in early Faial. I > think maybe the third is another from Faial or maybe Terceira. > > Of course, there are numerous Faria families that can't connect to these > well-known families and mine is like that. Records are lost in most cases > and we can't learn more. > > If your Faria is from Sao Miguel and you have traced it back to the > beginning of the records and it's still from Sao Miguel, maybe that means > there is another major branch or two or three from Sao Miguel. > > Whether these branches are really just the same family and beyond our > ability to know it, if a Faria family arrived in early Sao Miguel and > spread out from there, that would be maybe how we could have a connection > by Faria. > > I'm not looking at Rodrigo Rodrigues and if he has anything about Faria. > Maybe another can let us know. I have only his first volume and haven't > looked at it for a decade. > > Doug da Rocha Holmes > Sacramento, California > Pico & Terceira Genealogist > 916-550-1618 > www.dholmes.com > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] new changes in DNA matches > From: GENEVA <ggervais1...@centurylink.net> > Date: Wed, April 03, 2013 1:27 pm > To: azores@googlegroups.com > > > -- > -- > 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." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- 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." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
