Very well put Cheri. That should help clarify it for a lot of people. Yes, sometimes they will put sections or areas of the village and sometimes they will put street names and even path descriptions to describe where the person resided.
On Sunday, September 4, 2016 at 1:17:44 PM UTC-5, Cheri Mello wrote: > > Christian, > > Let's say you are moving to Omaha, Nebraska. You find an real estate agent > to show you some homes. First he shows you a home in the Conestoga part of > Omaha. Too quaint for your taste. Then he shows you a home in the Deer Park > section of Omaha. Too rustic. Then he shows you one in the Happy Heights > section and you absolutely love it. So you tell all your friends to go to > realtor.com and type in 1234 Happy Dance Rd, Omaha, NE to see your new > home. You didn't tell them 1234 Happy Dance Rd, Happy Heights, NE. And they > aren't going to mail your birthday card to Happy Heights either. They are > going to mail it to Omaha. > > So when you are reading the Portuguese records, you will see them > sometimes mention the neighborhood of that freguesia, and sometimes, even > the street name. Feteira is just a neighborhood Luz or Sao Mateus or > wherever you were researching. > > Now I have a homework assignment for you. Go here and print out this map > of Graciosa and its 4 freguesias: > > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~azrwgw/maps-churches-and-villages/graciosa.html > > Memorize that Guadalupe (the freguesia) has a church named Nossa Senhora > da Guadalupe. Luz (the freguesia) has a church named Nossa Senhora da Luz. > Praia (the freguesia) has a church named Sao Mateus. And Santa Cruz (the > freguesia) has church named Santa Cruz. > > The Portuguese records are housed by freguesia (villages) just like you > have to search realtor.com by city. Not neighborhood. It's nice to know > (you can put that info in your genealogy program), but you need to register > the event (baptism, marriage, death) by the freguesia it occurred in. If > you are using someone else's tree as a guide and they are doing the Happy > Heights thing, well, that is why you are confused. > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
