Rick, It can only be shown by example. Please have a look at this record and compare it to your link. What do you see different?
http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-RG-ESTRELA-O-1799-1811/SMG-RG-ESTRELA-O-1799-1811_item1/P113.html and now look at this one where the words "sui juris" are also displayed. http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/SMG-RG-ESTRELA-O-1799-1811/SMG-RG-ESTRELA-O-1799-1811_item1/P116.html You now have enough to draw the proper understanding or interpretation. Cheers, Margaret On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 3:31 AM, IslandRoutes < insearchofthehumanspi...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is interesting because it is a different interpretation than what I > was given years ago. It pops up in records for my ancestor Felicianno de > Mello. He was gone from his village for a few years because he was in the > military. He then starts to appear as a godparent with thisphrase after > his name. Another Azorean researcher told me it means "I swear it is > him"...meaning there was some doubt to his identity. > > -- > 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. > -- Margaret M Vicente -- 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.
