[AZORES-Genealogy] Obit: Aureliano Antonio De Sousa - Toronto, Ontario

2008-12-15 Thread tygerzeyez
de SOUSA, Aureliano Antonio - (January 22, 1930 - December 13, 2008) Mass 9 a.m. Tuesday at St. Helen's Church to Holy Cross Cemetery. Viewing 2-4 and 6-9 p.m. today at the RYAN & ODETTE FUNERAL HOME, 1498 Dundas St. W. at Dufferin, Toronto. Visitors parking - enter from Dufferin, just north of Dun

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: DeSousa Freitas/Selneira Borges

2008-12-15 Thread LLarrabee
I have some additional details that I should have added earlier. I have a Abel S. Freitas sailing on the S.S. Cretic from St. Michaels on March 22,1909. He was headed to Taunton Ma. My Aunt was born around 1913 in the USA. The family returned to St. Jorge and my Mother was born there in Oct. of 1

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: DeSousa Freitas/Selneira Borges

2008-12-15 Thread Cheri Mello
Les L, Did your mother ever say what village/freguesia she was from on Sao Jorge? You have to have that info in order to access the Portuguese records. The Sao Miguel "passaportes" (emigration out of the Azores) are online at the Center for Knowledge of the Azores (we call it the CCA web site as

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: DeSousa Freitas/Selneira Borges

2008-12-15 Thread "E" Sharp
Les and Cheri, He was coming from Urselina (Urzelina) Sao Jorge but it says he was born in Fajau/Fajan Sao Jorge. He was going to his cousin Manuel Goncalves on Briggs St. Taunton. Les, are you more interested his the Sao Jorge connection or the US records? Checking on return trip. "E" --~--

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: DeSousa Freitas/Selneira Borges

2008-12-15 Thread Diane Murach
Cheri, Can you help us navigate the CCA? What will we find and where will we find it? Diane - Original Message - From: Cheri Mello To: Azores@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 10:10 AM Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: DeSousa Freitas/Selneira Borges Les L,

[AZORES-Genealogy] CCA Web site

2008-12-15 Thread Cheri Mello
Reposting in its own thread here for Diane Murach: <> Diane, I've been periodically working on a guide to help navigate the site. There's just not enough hours in the day, it seems, but I'll keep plugging away at it. The CCA site can be found here: http://pg.azores.gov.pt/drac/cca/ig/ There wil

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: DeSousa Freitas/Selneira Borges

2008-12-15 Thread "E" Sharp
Les, Arriving in Providence RI, June 28,1914, on the ship Germania, sailing from Angra de Heroismo, Terceira, June 20, is a Francisco Silveira Borges, 21, last address Velas, Sao Jorge, his father is Manuel Borges, Velas, Sao Jorge, and he is going to his brother, first they had his friend, then

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: DeSousa Freitas/Selneira Borges

2008-12-15 Thread Linda Norton
It's amazing. I have de Sousa on my father's maternal side and Borges on my mother's paternal side, but from Sao Miguel. Suzanne Carreiro, my cousin from the group has her ggrandmother de Sousa married to a Borges, but from Sao Miguel also. It's too bad we couldn't make a connection from one isla

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: DeSousa Freitas/Selneira Borges

2008-12-15 Thread "E" Sharp
S.S. Manchuria, sailing from Sao Miguel, August 28, 1920, arriving NY Sept. 4, 1920: Abel S. Freitas 35, (Naturalization numbers: 197038 10/5/36) last address Urzelina, Sao Jorge. Name relative/friend from whence came: Attorney Joao I. Borges Going to friend/relative: Goddaughter Albertina 72 S

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: TRANSLATION

2008-12-15 Thread nancy jean baptiste
Beverly, Is there a particular part of it?...it's a rather long record.I see Oct.9, 1864 for Antonio Bettencourt de Avila, 33 and Senhorina da Conceiaco da Silva, 32..which part of it is unclear and maybe I can help a bit. Nancy From: bmmarc...@comcast.netto: azo...@googlegroups.com

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: DeSousa Freitas/Selneira Borges

2008-12-15 Thread LLarrabee
First of all I can't belive the amount of help that has been offered by the people on this site, you all are great.This last post answers a lot of questions. It looks like my Grams middle name was Silveira. This post below fits the family perfectly. They lived in the USA for my Aunts birth and wer