[AZORES-Genealogy] Vacation in St. Michael, Azores with Genealogy

2011-10-26 Thread lrazoresgenealogist
If you plan to visit San Miguel, Azores, on vacation and looking for their roots, see this website: http://oneclick.pt/quinta (Activities) -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: John Norton of Salt Spring Island

2011-10-26 Thread melaniekay
Gayle- This is very possibly a BIG DISCOVERY. What is Our Portuguese Heritage for Martha's Vineyard? Is that a book? I'll search for that title, if you discover or know more please share!! Thanks so much. Melanie On Oct 25, 8:31 pm, Gayle Machado gayle.mach...@fresnocitycollege.edu wrote: I

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: John Norton of Salt Spring Island

2011-10-26 Thread Cheri Mello
Repost for Manuel Azevedo, emmanuelopes at gmail.com hi gayle, this is all very exciting as i have been researching salt spring pioneers for some time. the norton's are particularly elusive! the story fits with oral history except that Flores is cited as the island of his birth (from his death

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: John Norton of Salt Spring Island

2011-10-26 Thread Cheri Mello
This is the only info (about 10 years old) that I have about the book that Gayle cites. I don't know if the phone number is valid either. Cheri === OUR PORTUGUESE HERITAGE, 1860 - 1990: AN INFORMAL GENEALOGY OF 3,000 FAMILIES ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD, by Marianne Holmes Thomas. This

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: John Norton of Salt Spring Island

2011-10-26 Thread rcapodc
OK, I went to Google Books and on the right-hand-side there is place that says find a library. This book is at Santa Clara Library, Connecticut State U, U of Mass, Dartmouth. I don't know if it helps but I also looked in Bookfinder.com and no luck nothing on www.hathitrust.org either. Rosemarie

[AZORES-Genealogy] Vacation in St. Michael, Azores with Genealogy

2011-10-26 Thread lrazoresgenealogist
Citando lrazoresgenealog...@sapo.pt: If you plan to visit San Miguel, Azores, on vacation and looking for their roots, see this website: http://www.oneclick.pt/quinta[1] (Activities) Ligações: - [1] http://www.oneclick.pt/quinta -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: John Norton of Salt Spring Island

2011-10-26 Thread Gayle Machado
Melanie, It is a two- volume set of books by Marianne Holmes Thomas. It was published in 1996 by CHiP (The Community History Project) in Edgartown, MA. It covers 3000 families who lived on Martha's Vineyard including my father's. (My mother was also from the island but not of Portuguese

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: John Norton of Salt Spring Island

2011-10-26 Thread Gayle Machado
Manuel, The book does not indicate that Francis left the island. A death date of 6 Nov 1893 is given. He married Deborah Vincent and together had 7 children. As for a Manuel- on page N512 it says Manuel Machado, son of Matthew and Martha Machado, both from St. George, came to Edgartown and

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: John Norton of Salt Spring Island

2011-10-26 Thread E Sharp
If the Library in Martha's Vineyard are half as great as the one in Nantucket, you will glean much of information from them. The ones in Nantucket helped me tremendously in a search I was doing. Above and beyond--even found out one of the ancestors died in Virginia. If you have any further

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: John Norton of Salt Spring Island

2011-10-26 Thread Gayle Machado
Manuel, There is a Manuel deLoura listed. Says he was born in 1870. Lists his wife and children but offers no further info as to where he was born. Now I really do need to get to work. I'll gladly look up anything else when I get home. Gayle On Oct 26, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Cheri Mello

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: John Norton of Salt Spring Island

2011-10-26 Thread Gayle Machado
Cheri, Check out history.vineyard.nethttp://history.vineyard.net Gayle On Oct 26, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Cheri Mello gfsche...@gmail.commailto:gfsche...@gmail.com wrote: This is the only info (about 10 years old) that I have about the book that Gayle cites. I don't know if the phone number is

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: John Norton of Salt Spring Island

2011-10-26 Thread E Sharp
There are 2 of these books listed on addall.com Vol. 1 only A-O at $150 each. E -- 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

[AZORES-Genealogy] Another family member found

2011-10-26 Thread E Sharp
Most of you know I have been chasing my grandmother Isabelle Victor's baptism record along with a couple of her siblings for a LONG time. I do have several of her other siblings records. Well, my super friend, Joao, today sent me the baptism record of yet another sibling. Another son and, with

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Another family member found

2011-10-26 Thread Linda Norton
That's awesome. Linda Borges Furtado Norton _ From: azores@googlegroups.com [mailto:azores@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of E Sharp Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 6:21 PM To: azores Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Another family member found Most of you know I have been chasing

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: John Norton of Salt Spring Island

2011-10-26 Thread Katharine
http://www.worldcat.org/title/our-portuguese-heritage-1860-1900-an-informal-genealogy-of-3000-families-on-marthas-vineyard-in-two-volumes/oclc/35039750referer=brief_results Our Portuguese heritage, 1860-1900: (an informal genealogy of 3,000 families on Martha's Vineyard) in two volumes Author:

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: John Norton of Salt Spring Island

2011-10-26 Thread Katharine
Re OUR PORTUGUESE HERITAGE, 1860 - 1990: AN INFORMAL GENEALOGY OF 3,000 FAMILIES ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD, by Marianne Holmes Thomas Also held at: Santa Clara City Library, Santa Clara, CA 95051 -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the