Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Familias Faialenses by Marcelino Lima

2014-03-15 Thread MaryAnn Santos
If you type in Saudades da Terra the volumes for Sao Miguel and Madeira come up. MaryAnn On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 7:04 PM, rcapodc rcap...@redshift.com wrote: I was just on the U of Michigan site, www.hathitrust.org, to look at the above named book for some info. I put in the name Vieira

[AZORES-Genealogy] Cabral/Pimentel and Da Costa/Pimentel Probably Cousins

2014-03-15 Thread Herb
Does anyone have any information on marriages of Pedro Cabral and Maria de Pimentel or Joao da Costa and Sabena de Pimentel. Their children Jose Cabral and Barbara Pimentel married in Igreja de Sao Jorge Nordeste, Sao Miguel on 8 June 1814 .

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Cabral/Pimentel and Da Costa/Pimentel Probably Cousins

2014-03-15 Thread Herb
I think my spell checker went crazy and changed Nordeste to Northeast on some programs depending on what's on your computers On Saturday, March 15, 2014 9:56:03 AM UTC-4, Herb wrote: Does anyone have any information on marriages of Pedro Cabral and Maria de Pimentel or Joao da Costa and

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Familias Faialenses by Marcelino Lima

2014-03-15 Thread rcapodc
Wow, MaryAnn, that’s marvelous! Finally books that have been out-of-print for years are being made available to the masses! Hopefully, they will get many more online for us all to use. Rosemarie From: MaryAnn Santos Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2014 4:36 AM To: azores@googlegroups.com

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Familias Faialenses by Marcelino Lima

2014-03-15 Thread MaryAnn Santos
Yes, it's really convenient! MaryAnn On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:06 PM, rcapodc rcap...@redshift.com wrote: Wow, MaryAnn, that's marvelous! Finally books that have been out-of-print for years are being made available to the masses! Hopefully, they will get many more online for us all to

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: A True Portuguese Success Story - How Proud We All Should Be

2014-03-15 Thread Anne Snyder
Yes, what an inspiring story!! How was he able to accomplish all that with practically no vision? Anne Snyder - Original Message - From: Isabella Baltar To: azores@googlegroups.com Cc: azores Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 4:06 PM Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: A True

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Familias Faialenses by Marcelino Lima

2014-03-15 Thread Steve
You can do a full-text search of the book at http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101007628793 This is the permanent link at HathiTrust, so I have not url-shortened it. You can download rtf excerpts for translation or pdf page by page, but you need a partner log-in to download the entire book. --

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Cabral/Pimentel and Da Costa/Pimentel Probably Cousins

2014-03-15 Thread Pam Santos
This might be Pedro's marriage and Maria used Soares when married but then used Pimentel from her mother in later records.I would check other baptism for kids they had to see if it list grandparents.

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Cabral/Pimentel and Da Costa/Pimentel Probably Cousins

2014-03-15 Thread Herb
Pam I saw this marriage too and sort of dismissed it because the name was Soares. It's possible she used Pimentel too like you say. I will check that angle especially if nothing else turns up. Thanks a lot. Herb -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation)

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Marriage Record of Manuel da Costa and Filomena da Conceicao (around 1863)

2014-03-15 Thread Joseph Costa
Now I’m on a search for Manuel’s father Francisco Jose (Feitor) da Costa. Thank you for the marriage record. In the margin of the record, I believe it says that Francisco was 25 and Maria de Jesus was 18. This would mean that he would have been born around 1791. I searched through all of

[AZORES-Genealogy] Ships

2014-03-15 Thread Antonio Roque
Is there a place to look for the ships that left S. Miguel in 1915 and where they were destined to? -- For 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

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Ships

2014-03-15 Thread Cheri Mello
Antonio R, Yes, emigration out of the Azores are the Passaportes book. The port of Ponta Delgada, on Sao Miguel island is online at the CCA site: http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/ig/ The direct URL to the Passaportes is: http://www.culturacores.azores.gov.pt/ig/passaportes/Default.aspx Pick

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Cabral/Pimentel and Da Costa/Pimentel Probably Cousins

2014-03-15 Thread Pam Santos
Your welcome good luck. On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Herb herbandj...@verizon.net wrote: Pam I saw this marriage too and sort of dismissed it because the name was Soares. It's possible she used Pimentel too like you say. I will check that angle especially if nothing else turns up.

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Unfamiliar Surname

2014-03-15 Thread Bryan Rodrigues
My great grandmother who was born in Faial had the surname Homem. I had never heard the name or met anyone with the name before coming across it in family records but apparently it's common. There was a family of famous cartographers in the 1500s with the last name. I wonder if we are

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Unfamiliar Surname - HOMEM

2014-03-15 Thread pico
HOMEM is common on Pico and Terceira.HOMEM da COSTA is a common combination.I get my name Holmes from Homem. It is commonly misspelled as HOMEN because when properly pronounced the end has sort of a ENG or EN ending. Plus, the H is silent, so the whole thing is like OMENG or OMEN. I'm sure there

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Unfamiliar Surname - HOMEM

2014-03-15 Thread pico
It just occurred to me that maybe some named Homem did change it by translating the name to MANN.Doug da Rocha HolmesSacramento, CaliforniaPico Terceira Genealogist916-550-1618www.dholmes.com Original Message Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Unfamiliar Surname - HOMEM From: