Thanks Cheri for the initial direction. where is the Biblioteca e Arquivo found?
Thanks, Tanya Smith On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tanya, > > You won't find your relatives in a cemetery. Most plots are used for a > specific period of time (7 years or so) and then the remains are removed > and placed in a crypt or ossuary and the grave is reused. The exception is > if the family is still paying a fee on the plot. Then the remains stay as > long as the fee is paid. > > You can find birth, marriages, and death records from about 1910 on back > in the Biblioteca e Arquivo. However, unless your people came from one of > the freguesias in Ribeira Grande, you can find them right now by going on > the CCA site here: http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/ig/ > > You won't be able to walk into their archive and have your family on a > scroll, ready to be rolled out for you. That only happens on "Who Do You > Think You Are?" and other genealogy TV shows. It's not reality. The > producers contact various archives before hand. For us real genealogists, > we have to research to piece our trees together. > > Most of our ancestors who emigrated out of the Azores were poor, looking > for a better life. It's difficult to find pictures. You are more apt to > find pictures by networking with people here. > > Good luck! > 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. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- Tanya K. Smith tanya808sm...@gmail.com 808.232.1366 P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. -- 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. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
