[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: How to spell a portuguese surname

2009-01-18 Thread Marralha
In a message dated 1/18/2009 12:21:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, jay_fr...@applimetrix.com writes: > My Pavao family was known as Piva, Paiva, and Pavao here in the US. > > > I would say that if the name was pronounced in English like PAY-VOH, then it would be PAVÃO in Portuguese, pronounced

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: How to spell a portuguese surname

2009-01-18 Thread Vivian Christy
Guida, Lionel, Jason and Marralha, Thank you all for your input.   I think the way it was pronounced to me in English was PA-VO.  I was looking in the Mass, Vital Records Archives to find a Frank Roderick Silva and Mary Pavo married in about 1903 in Cambridge.  Could not come up with anything on

[AZORES-Genealogy] Parrola/Parrolo on death record

2009-01-18 Thread Mary Bordi
Thanks everyone for bearing with me on all my recent questions (and for all the great answers!) I hope the answers are helping other people in their research, too. Or will in their future research. I'm now looking at death records for Norte Grande, Sao Jorge, for around 1849. So sad to see

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: 1800's Azores immigration and my Gregario/Gregorio relatives

2009-01-18 Thread Kathy
Hi Edgar, Thank you so much for all of it, did you get the email I sent through the groups? I think you've hit the nail on the head with those records, it all seems to match up perfectly to much of the family info I have. To be honest I never thought to put in Fisher, rather than the Gregario/

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: How to spell a portuguese surname

2009-01-18 Thread jojo8765
Hi Vivian'   The name is usually spelled as Pavao. Hope this is helpful. On some census lists it was mistakenly written as Parvo because that is how it is pronounced in Portuguese. I think that you will find it as Pavao.   

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: How to spell a portuguese surname

2009-01-18 Thread Vivian Christy
Hi Joanne,  Thanks for the info.  I will try that name also.  I need to go back to the ship records to see if I can find her coming into this country at that time also 1903 because she had come over to this country from the Azores to marry my great grandfather Frank R. Silva.  I know I still hav

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Thanks for your help on Azores trip

2009-01-18 Thread mikeg
Hello everyone, My family and I will be spending month of May in Velas, Sao Jorge in rented house. Any tips re exploration, restaurants, out-of-way places etc. most welcomed. Will be happy to make contact with families and friends on your behalf. We're excited! Also happy to share information abo

[AZORES-Genealogy] Information From Lodges or Fraternal Organizations

2009-01-18 Thread Charlene
List Members, I would like to know your opinions on getting information from lodges, fraternal organizations, or religious clubs or memberships that our ancestors may have belonged to. Has anyone done this? What kind of info do they have, how do you obtain it, and what might be of genealogical in

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: "filha d' outra"

2009-01-18 Thread Florence Hampton
Hi, In the records I have dealt with, the "filha d'outra" was noted because the father of the child and the paternal grandfather had the same name. . Florence -- From: "mnk" Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:50 PM To: "Azores Genealogy" Subje