Cheri and others, I'm hoping that perhaps you can provide some advice to us regarding our upcoming visit to Vila Franca do Campo in about one month. We hope to locate relatives there but do not have much information to go on, other than the fact the family could be from the St. Michael's parish.
When the family emigrated in 1904, the eldest daughter stayed behind. We know her name, that she was a teacher, and that when her younger sister visited her many years later she reportedly still lived in VF and had a houseful of children and grandchildren. Our living cousins here in the US have scoured their family records trying to help us find more information without success. We know that she as born pre-1892. While we've searched LDS films for her parents vitals, we don't know any of hers. We've struck out on the parents as well, and are thinking that they could have been baptized and married at another parish even thought their passport records id this as their parish. We also have some family photos, but none that include this eldest daughter. Still we hope they might be useful, and have made reprints to use when we are there. Other than simply walking around and asking town residents, I wonder if you have any advice for us. We have also timed our visited to coincide with the annual parish festa, in hopes that this could afford additional opportunities for us. We hope that if we can find her decedents, perhaps they can lead us to more information about the parents. Any advice at all would be appreciated. Regards, Marcia Andre --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
