It is very difficult to research Sao Miguel island with its 70 or so parishes without knowing which parish your ancestor came from. Araujos are all over Sao Miguel.
I'd go to your local genealogy society and ask how to trace an immigrant ancestor in Australia around 1850. Are there censuses, naturalizations, or other documents that you can look at that might list your ancestor's place of birth? Any Australian military records, his death record, his obituary, etc? I'm not Australian so I'm not familiar with what you have for resources to trace an immigrant ancestor. If that work turns up no more than Sao Miguel island, you could turn to DNA. Understand though that it's not a magic wand. Sao Miguel island is the largest and we have only a couple of DNA clusters so far on that island. If you test and match a group of testees who are all researching in a particular freguesia (village), then you'll know where to start looking. However, it is most likely that you won't match a clear cluster, but your results will sit there, attracting more matches over time. While you play wait-and-see you can work other matches or force matches to happen by testing other family members. If you do decide to go this route, test the oldest person on your Araujo line. If that's one of your parents, test your parent first. If your parents are deceased, but have a living sibling, test them first. If your parents and their siblings are all deceased, then you are the best candidate so you could test yourself. You would want to order the Family Finder test at Family Tree DNA here: https://goo.gl/i34dpE If your maiden name is Araujo, then we would want to test someone else too and with a different kind of test in addition to the one above. Good luck, Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:46 AM, Annette <gi...@fox-net.com.au> wrote: > Can anyone please tell me anything about my 2nd great grandfather, He was > a farmer and married a lady called Antonia, who we don't know of her last > name. > I don't know what parish they came from, only it was Sao Miguel. > My great grandfather's name was Francisco Batila De Araujo or De > Araugo. He was born in 1832. > Francisco ran away to sea when he was 16 years old and ended up on the > gold fields as a miner in Bendigo Victoria Australia. > I know of all the children Francisco had and the rest of the family. > I'm hopeful that someone will know of him or the name De Araujo and what > part of Sao Miguel they came from. > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
