Absolutely fascinating. One of the most interesting and fun parts of family history for me is connecting the dots of the abstract world history I know to circumstances and events in my own family.
The US Marine hymn: "From the Halls of Montezuma, to the Shores of Tripoli" is now stuck in my head . The last is a reference to Tripoli, Libya, of course, and the 1800's campaign against the Barbary pirates. Now I'll think about Barbary pirates and Mozabite genes every time the marching band passes in our Fourth of July Parade! Eileen Leite From: João Ventura [mailto:j...@venturas.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 2:57 AM To: azores@googlegroups.com Cc: fishsongf...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: FTDNA: Got Mozabite genes? Nancy, I'd believe all islands were raided quite often. Even mainland Portugal was raided occasionally. I'd guess Flores and Corvo were more commonly raided, as they were more isolated and harder to defend. From a Shipwrecking book published by Francisco Gomes,I see that Flores and Corvo were attacked by pirates in 1536, 1537, 1549, 1567, 1587, 1590, 1592, 1609, 1616, 1632, 1635, 1644, 1654, 1719, 1770, 1818. Probably more, I wasn't reading all the entries. The one in 1719 was especially bad. They captured at least 3 of my wife's ancestors. Piracy was tolerated by every nation until about 1800. At that time, the US Congress decided not to pay the usual bribe to the Barbary pirates, started the US Navy and put it to good use in North Africa. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Wars There's a PhD thesis in Portuguese with a list of rescued captives: http://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/handle/1822/13440. The lists of captives rescued start at page 432, and besides the name of the person rescued, it also indicates their origin, age, and the numbers of years they were captive. Regards, João Ventura . -- 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.
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