Hi there, Cheri, you're right....I've been working on finding my 8 ggreat grandparents from Pico, Sao Jorge and Santa Maria for over 10 years and I usually work on it several days a week. For the first 4 years I worked on it daily for many hours a day. After "E" helped me find Antonio Teixeira Baptista....who's only name I knew was Antone Baptiste and then finding him in the CCA baptisms for TOPO, I was totally committed to finding them all.....I only have one brick wall left, my ggreat grandfather from Sao Jorge, Joseph Veterino/Jose Enos, Bettencourt, Vieira, Oliveira.....he's a mystery man although I have some clues and an intuitive sense that several of my Family Finder matches connect with him. Rosemarie, I love that we're cousins and although our DNA tells us that we still have discoveries to make.....I like looking at our "in common" matches on FF for clues since we have several in common. Although, Rosa Luiza is from Lajes do Pico, I do have ancestry in my Sao Jorge line that goes back to Flamengos, Faial....Domingos de Abreu whose son moved to Sao Jorge, married and changed his surname to that of his wife's family...the de Quadros family. Who knows......we have several areas we could connect.....I have to live a long time to discover all I want to discover.....and now DNA has not only provided clues but opened doors to many other areas to learn and discover new things! Thanks to the many people in the group who have helped me along the way...especially, last year....Denis and Tish Meals whose years of work extracting Santa Maria records found how Tish and I were cousins....FFinder matched her to my uncle John Baptiste although not to me.....took us back to our 6th ggrandparent, Dona Maria do Santo Antonio, born in Sao Lourenco and married to Capitao Mauricio de Sousa Meneses around 1681. They broke my brick wall behind my 4th ggrandfather, Francisco Ventura Moreira......can't thank them enough! This was also a great example of testing the oldest person you can....Tish matched my 91 year old paternal uncle....not me. Nancy Jean
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 09:31:03 -0800 Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Brick wall comes crashing down thanks to CCA Horta passports From: rcap...@gmail.com To: azores@googlegroups.com This is sooooo great, Nancy! According to Igor Espinola Franca's book of Sao Roque do Pico, one of my lines came from Faial! Maybe that's where we connect not in Pico at all. The only trouble is, it's way before the marriage records start and they don't show in Familias da Faialenses! Oh well, we know the DNA shows the conenctions, Prima! Rosemarie rcapodc@gmail.comResearching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores,Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com> wrote: Great story! The pieces are starting to fall into place. Nancy Jean has been working on her family for how many years before finding this breakthrough? Many, many years! 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. -- 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.
