>From the Feb 2014 issued of the Central California Catholic Life... Msgr. Cotta, 60, grew up on a dairy farm in the Merced County community of Dos Palos, the grandson of Portuguese immigrants from the Azores island of Terceira... Msgr Cotta's parents Daniel Edward Cotta and Mary Barbara Martin.
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:20 PM, <p...@dholmes.com> wrote: > Sort of, Helen. > > Before Doze Ribeiras changed from just an ermida to a freguesia, it was > part of Santa Barbara das Nove Ribeiras, as you probably know. Mine are > from Santa Barbara. > > I was wondering why you asked, so I noticed one of your husband's Cota > lines and I can't yet prove we are related by that one, but suspect our > common ancestors from that line are Baltazar Goncalves and Maria Cota in > the middle 1500s. > > But I see we do have common Cota ancestors from Catarina Cota and husband > Pedro Lucas from the middle 1600s. I don't remember whether I ever > mentioned that before. That appears to be about the closest of our links. > > Did you ever get him to do a Family Finder DNA test? That would be > interesting to see if our match also shows we have matching DNA, as well. > > Doug da Rocha Holmes > Sacramento, California > Pico & Terceira Genealogist > 916-550-1618 > www.dholmes.com > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Bishop Myron Cotta > From: his...@aol.com > Date: Tue, April 01, 2014 7:33 pm > To: azores@googlegroups.com > > Doug, > Are your Cotta's from Doze Ribeiras? > Helen > -----Original Message----- > From: terceira <terce...@dholmes.com> > To: azores <azores@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Mon, Mar 31, 2014 10:46 pm > Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Bishop Myron Cotta > > I just read in the latest issue of O Progresso (by the Portuguese > Historical Society of Sacramento) about the new Bishop Myron Cotta. > > Any chance that someone knows about his link to the Azores? It says his > grandparents were immigrants and I assume they were from Terceira, since > that's where most named Cotta are from (now spelled as Cota). > > I would like to find my own link to his family, since I have lots of > Cota ancestors from Terceira. > > Obrigado, > > Doug da Rocha Holmes > Sacramento, California > Terceira Genealogist > 916-550-1618 > Website: www.dholmes.com > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
