Thanks Celeste! Just got some records from a local Portuguese Society. Excited to make some connections! 2 ships - SS Bell Rock - from Sao Miguel to Honolulu Hawaii, Nov. 1, 1883 AND SS Braunfels- from Sao Miguel to Honolulu, April 4, 1895
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 6:23 PM, celeste perry <ccgran...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Tanya, > I will put the CD in the mail this week for you. If you have any > additional questions, please just email me and I will try to answer them. > I too, visited the cemeteries on my first trip to the Azores and found > that, in my family, they did not have the money to put up markers or > "purchase" their plots. This means that after a few years, the graves are > recycled and the church again is the last place where an ancestor had a > mass said for them. Unfortunately, I also saw that a lot of the altars > have been redone as they age. So, that is another reason I used the > baptismal fonts as my connection to my ancestors. > Let me know when you receive the CD. Sometimes, things get lost in the > mail, just emails sometimes don't make it through the maze and get "lost." > Celeste > Celeste Perry ccgran...@yahoo.com > > > On Monday, March 17, 2014 8:07 PM, Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com> > wrote: > Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo de Ponta Delgada > Rua Largo Colegio > 9500 Ponta Delgada > São Miguel > > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Tanya Smith <tanya808sm...@gmail.com>wrote: > > 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. 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