:) Maybe we should get a group of people together and start extracting the baptisms followed by death records now that the marriages are done.
Suzanne On Sunday, September 3, 2017 at 2:23:51 PM UTC-7, Jeremy G. B-C: Researching Sao Jorge wrote: > > Hello All, > > I just was researching one of my lines in Sao Jorge and got another > generation back in the early 1700's but I did so in a rather unique way, > and thought that I would share because it may hep someone. Unknowingly, I > did so exactly the same way as previously done by Marcio Borba. > > I had traced my line back to a 5th great grandfather in Sao Jorge, and > since his marriage record is among the missing, I was not able to > determine his parenthood. However, I knew that based on his death record > he was born in Calheta about 1700. His name was Francisco and so there are > way to many births for me to latch on to any particular one. I was doing > research on another line going through the early death records of the same > town. I stumbled across one for a lady named Maria de Sousa. The record > mentioned the soul of her grandson Pascoal de Sousa, son of Francisco de > Sousa Goulart, her son. I always to at least some research on my distant > aunts and uncles (as all should) and so I knew when he died, and it was > indeed before her. The Francisco de Sousa Goulart was my ancestor, > ThereforeI was able to tac on another generation. > > The moral of this being that there is some good information in some of > those older death records where they list whom the person was predeceased > by, and always always always pull at least the baptismal records of your > ancestors siblings. The collateral research always pays off. > > JEREMY > -- 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.
