One thing you might be able to do, if she had any daughters, and if these daughters had any daughters who are living to this day, is get the mt-DNA test and maybe somehow, someone in the future will match and you can find that one maternal line.
Also, the Family Finder test will register her DNA, but as Cheri has pointed out many times, it will take time to figure out relatives you are getting from her unknown parents.
Doug da Rocha Holmes
Sacramento, California
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618
Sacramento, California
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618
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Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Luiza de Jesus of Pais incognito
From: Maria Lima <maria.lima...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, March 28, 2014 12:46 pm
To: AZORES <azores@googlegroups.com>
Luiza de Jesus Coreira is my husband's gr grandmother and lived in Boston so we have her birthdate as 5 February 1838. I even found her passport with her picture when my husband's mom died and I had to "dispose" of her belongings after she lived 40 years in the same house. It's a miracle how I came upon Luiza's passport. So I'm so sad that with her lineage I've come to the end.
Her passport, her marriage and even the birth records for her children state she was from Sao Jose parish in Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel. However, I could not find Expostos for Sao Jose parish. So I went to the Matrix, Sao Sebastao. There I found a baptismal record on 15 February 1838 for a Luiza, placed on the Roda, and given by order of the Camara to be raised to Angelica de Jesus, wife of Antonio Pacheco. (Interesting they tended to give the child to a woman, "wife of or widow of" and not the couple. Maybe there's a reason for that. Was the giving of the child to someone to raise a legal adoption?
I'd like your opinion: I feel like I'm grabbing at straws here assuming this is my Luiza. if she was really born on the 5 and baptized the 15th then that makes sense, right? The name of the lady who raised her also had the middle name of "de Jesus." So that's like "another clue" (?)
Luiza always used the surname Correia. Now I realize I have no leads to research her last name.
Maybe they learned more about their birth circumstances as they got older and there was a Coreira in her lineage?
Looks like they used the same 2 guys to be padrinhos for just about all the pages I read. So I discounted them from any familial ties.
Any insights would be so appreciated. It's sad when you get to the end of the line. :(
I've heard of miracles in dead ends but I just don't know where to go with this.
Any help would be so appreciated.
http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-PD-SAOSEBASTIAO-B-1827-1839/SMG-PD-SAOSEBASTIAO-B-1827-1839_item1/P121.html
Maria Elena
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