Cathy B, The Azores GenWeb has resources to help you "read" the records. But that's not your problem. You need your freguesia (village). No one on this list will help you until you know FOR SURE what your freguesia (village) is. Many people on this list who help out are working and not retired. We don't want to waste anyone's time.
The Azores GenWeb also has resources to help you find your freguesia too! http://goo.gl/ywiW4F Start with that. Find your immigrants' deaths in America, their obituaries, their naturalization, etc, etc. Somewhere, it will turn up the freguesia. Knowing Sao Miguel isn't good enough. Everything is organized on the village level. It will take some time to hunt down the things suggested in the link above. It's not like it is on TV, where the producers contact the researchers a year before and they put it on TV and make it look like it all happened in a couple of weeks. It takes them about a year, and a couple of the celebrities have taken 2 years. However, those shows are looking for a line that is TV worthy - find a long line of common peasants wouldn't make for entertaining television. They find stuff out in a couple of months, but it may not be that juicy story they are after. Good luck, 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.
