Hello John, did you find documentation on the country of origin of the three documented slave ancestors and also which island and freguesia are those ancestors from if you don't mind I have an interest in the topic.
On Saturday, September 24, 2016 at 9:38:07 AM UTC-7, John Raposo wrote: > > escravo (a) de...slave of.... The Portuguese were the leading traders in > the slave trade and Azorean and Madeirans owned slaves, though never in > great numbers. I have 3 documented slave ancestors in my Azorean lineage. > > John Miranda Raposo > > > > > On Saturday, September 24, 2016 10:35 AM, Paul <pago...@comcast.net > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > According to both FTDNA and 23andMe I have some African DNA in my family. > FTDNA has my total at 2% African, while the 23andMe total is 1.5% Sub > Saharan African. I have no idea if this is from my paternal or maternal > side of my family. My paternal great grandparents were from the Azores > (Silva-de Medeiros) and Madeira (Gomes-de Sousa). Maternal great > grandparents were from Sweden (Berglund-Jonsson) and England > (Matthews-Harvey). Besides O Africano, what are some of the other terms I > should be looking for in the baptismo, casamento, or obito records? > > Paul G. > -- > 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+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
