My Grandmother always told me that her Parents were from Portal, Sao Jorge ... it was so sparsely populated that sometimes they had a baptism in Calheta, sometimes Ribeira Seca, Norte Pequeno, Norte Grande ... Makes it so hard but very rewarding when it comes through!
Yay Rosemarie! Never give up! Louie On Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 9:23:16 PM UTC-7, rcapodc wrote: > > I just had to share my find of the year! While emailing Louie Avila last > week, he mentioned something about couples from Sao Jorge going to Terceira > to marry. Who knows really why but it happened. My Thomas Jose was from > Calheta, Sao Jorge and Barbara Caetana from Ribeira Seca, SJ. The marriage > records for both villages are there for the time period needed but I could > not find them. After Louie mentioned the possibility of Terceira, I checked > the Terceira marriage records PDF. Low and behold, there they were in 1754! > I know it is them because I did know Thomas' parents names. To make it even > better, Barbara's Mom is the sis of one of my greatgrandfathers! I already > had them in my database. So, don't give up, follow up every clue no matter > how suspect! Now I have four more generations in my tree. Some of them are > even mentioned in *Notas Historicas *which is about the village of > Calheta. > > Rosemarie > rcap...@gmail.com <javascript:> > Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, > Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily > -- 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.