Courtney L, I've done a lot of work with Shirley Allegre (of this list - her computer is offline for another week or so). Since Shirley and I shared so many lines, we did a lot together. She's in northern CA and I'm in southern CA. We both ordered the film and went to work at it, collecting whole families (they are intermarried, so might as well). Every time we got a new priest or scribe, we moaned. There was one in Ponta Garca that we nicknamed the "Chinese priest." His writing style was very square and boxy, like what you would see with Chinese letters. Shirley would get mad at him and threatened to go to the Azores and dig him up and make him rewrite the records! But we got used to him. And then we got a different one! Ugh! He was so much worse than the first. But after we got done whining and moaning about his penmanship (or lack thereof), we got used to him too.
Keep on trying. You'll start to see the names jump out after awhile. Then you'll start to see the months. The years (numbers) will be last because they are all long hand. But with time, they come along too. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- 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 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. To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
