Ricardo, I know Canto did his work in the latter 1800s. And Rodrigo Rodrigues did corrections and amendments in the early 1900s.
Take the Achada marriage index, for example. Canto created it sometime in the late 1800s. The early Achada records are really bad - near the level of the Santa Maria records. Canto wrote a lot of ..... where he couldn't read or wrote partial names (M_____). Rodrigues wrote on the front of Achada's index that he when through and corrected and amended Canto's work and then Rodrigues wrote the date 1929. So I have a time line for when the books were deteriorating. And I can see 2 genealogists just struggle with it too. 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.