Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to reply to my post. Your advice is greatly appreciated and I will follow up the online possibilities. Antonio De Souza is on my maternal side and sadly my Mother died 10 years ago so there is no possibility of following DNA through her. Her first cousin has tested and I will ask her to join the Azores DNA Project. Others in the family have indicated they will also test but to date, this does not seem to have happened. I have not uploaded a Gedcom file to FamilyTreeDNA as I believe it would not assist on this occasion. All the information I have about Antonio has been obtained from records here in South Australia, his marriage, naturalisation and death certificates. His parents names and photos are purely oral family history from his descendants here. Our family were very proud of Antonio's heritage and stories abound and this is from a time where British migrants were the norm and other nationalities were frowned upon. However, as with all family stories not everything can be relied upon to be totally accurate. Let's hope I am able to follow up on my dream and visit the Azores later this year and with the online possibilities I am now aware of, fingers crossed it will be a wonderful experience. Cheer Susan
On Friday, 26 January 2018 03:30:54 UTC+10:30, LeFevre13 wrote: > > My GG Grandfather was Antonio De Souza. A family member visited Sao Miguel > in 1999 and located a likely baptism for Antonio in 1842 from the Parish of > Faja De Cima with his parents shown as Manuel De Souza and Marianna de > Jezus. The names of these parents and the date of his birth all seem to > match my oral family history. Antonio left the Azores as a young man and > settled in Adelaide, South Australia where he married, fathered several > children and sadly died in 1887 as a result of a work injury. I have photos > of Antonio's parents. My brother, my cousin and I have undertaken DNA > testing with FamilyTreeDNA but so far no one has been a good match. I am > hoping to visit Sao Miguel later this year and I would like to find out as > much as possible before my trip so I can visit places of family interest. > Researching while visiting there would be difficult as I do not speak or > read the Portuguese language. I would be very grateful if anyone can > suggest possible areas to research for this family in advance. > -- 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.
