[AZORES-Genealogy] CCA site

2013-04-26 Thread Paul
Are the guru's at CCA doing a major update? I have tried on several occasions and different computers to access the site and get the same error. I even dumped the browser history and did a disk clean up, still get the error (SERVER ERROR IN '/' APPLICATION.) Paul G. -- For options, such as ch

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: military ranks

2013-04-26 Thread Kawika322
Does anyone know if there are Azorean Military Records that might give some more information? I would assume there had to be some official records that were kept for those in the upper military ranks such as Capitão or Alferes...e.g. providing legitimacy records. Could they be kept in the Angra

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] 2nd extension: Family Tree DNA sale now extended to Tuesday, April 30, 11:59 pm CDT

2013-04-26 Thread Pam Santos
Thanks On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Cheri Mello wrote: > Pam, yes, a female doing the Family Finder will get both sides of her DNA. > > For those who want the gory details, Family Finder is the autosomal DNA. > What that means is a person (male or female) gets 50% of their DNA from > their

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] 2nd extension: Family Tree DNA sale now extended to Tuesday, April 30, 11:59 pm CDT

2013-04-26 Thread Cheri Mello
Pam, yes, a female doing the Family Finder will get both sides of her DNA. For those who want the gory details, Family Finder is the autosomal DNA. What that means is a person (male or female) gets 50% of their DNA from their parents, 25% from each grandparent, 12.5% from each great, and so on. Y

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] New HBO comedy debuts May 12: Family Tree

2013-04-26 Thread Pam Santos
Guess I will have to get HBO now lol On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Cheri Mello wrote: > Dick Eastman wrote about this in his newsletter today: > http://goo.gl/aaUeb > > For those who don't know of Dick Eastman, he's kind of a genealogy tech > guru and former leader and founder of the Genealo

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] 2nd extension: Family Tree DNA sale now extended to Tuesday, April 30, 11:59 pm CDT

2013-04-26 Thread Pam Santos
I have a question on that too, if a female doing the family finder test, will that get both of her parents DNA? On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Cheri Mello wrote: > Elle said: > << have a question, maybe you might know. When I send in the DNA should I > include only my Azores side or should I

[AZORES-Genealogy] New HBO comedy debuts May 12: Family Tree

2013-04-26 Thread Cheri Mello
Dick Eastman wrote about this in his newsletter today: http://goo.gl/aaUeb For those who don't know of Dick Eastman, he's kind of a genealogy tech guru and former leader and founder of the Genealogy Forum on CompuServe back in the 90s. You can read more about Dick here: http://goo.gl/DXRzZ -- C

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] 2nd extension: Family Tree DNA sale now extended to Tuesday, April 30, 11:59 pm CDT

2013-04-26 Thread Cheri Mello
Elle said: << have a question, maybe you might know. When I send in the DNA should I include only my Azores side or should I include the Irish side as well. If I use my mother's DNA (she is 96) I will get her parents DNA - father from Azores and mother from Ireland. Or should I use my own DNA to

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Bretanha Connections

2013-04-26 Thread elle
Hi Rick, I am afraid my tree is not very complete. Actually, what I have I got from John, however, I do not find him on my tree - prehaps it is because he is still alive. I have an Antonia Viveiros who married Jao Raposo in 1745. I also have a Manuel de Riveiros born 1848. I have just order

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] military ranks

2013-04-26 Thread Eliseu Silva
Hi! Yes!!! The rank of Capitão is above the rank of Alferes. Sorry for this typo!!! Eliseu Pacheco da Silva Researching S. Miguel and Graciosa: PACHECO, ARRUDA, SILVA, SOUSA, BETTENCOURT and MAINLAND, Alentejo Azores Genealogy Group -- For options, such as changing to Lis