Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Got my mtDNA Results

2014-04-17 Thread Cheri Mello
When I get back home from the conference in Salt Lake, I will contact you. Cheri On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Joseph Costa wrote: > This may be a question for Cheri to answer for me. I got my mtDNA full > sequence results today. A bit overwhelming for me to try to interpret > them. There

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Posting Find-A-Grave Memorials

2014-04-17 Thread Cheri Mello
Better yet, just post the memorial number. Here's the one for Manuel de Mello that I posted a few minutes ago: 19526056 Copy and paste that link into the search on Find A Grave and it will take you right to the memorial and then I won't see all the Find A Grave messages in the group spam filter!

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] GRACIOSA researcher's list

2014-04-17 Thread Steve Wright
Hi Eliseu: I would like to be added to your Graciosa list. I am researching my grandparents, Francisco Sousa Rosa and Elvira Bettancourt Cunha. Thanks to Joao Ventura I have found information for my grandmother Elvira. I have been to Graciosa several years ago and saw my great grandmother, same

[AZORES-Genealogy] Posting Find-A-Grave Memorials

2014-04-17 Thread Cheri Mello
Can you folks please post the URL and not the memorial itself to Find A Grave? Everyone that posts the memorial gets flagged as spam. Everyone who responds back and does not snip the message (allows your email program to copy the previous message) also gets flagged as spam. Post the link like th

[AZORES-Genealogy] Question Marks on Baptism Records

2014-04-17 Thread Liliana Harris
I am looking through records here: http://www.ghp.ics.uminho.pt/genealogias.html Some baptism records have the name recorded as, for example, "Maria ?" At first, I thought that meant the second name was illegible, but then I found some as "??" and one as "Indetermidad ?" Does anyone have a clue

[AZORES-Genealogy] Impossible to read -almost

2014-04-17 Thread Maria Lima
Upper left page Name of the child . I know the parents are Antonio Bottelho and Antonia de Jesus but all I can figure out is the child is a girl. I've tried staring at it but my old eyes aren't seeing through the ink. How would you enter this? "Baby girl Bottelho" (?) Thank for looking. h

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Half Moon Bay, CA

2014-04-17 Thread Cheri Mello
Repost for Ramona Nason, nasongirlsmom at hotmail.com Hi Eddie, iam also on the search for Cardoza's. My GrGrandmother was a Correia and married Joseph Cardoza, they lived in Sausalito. I don't have much info and don't have any relatives left to ask. I have found census records with they in it, bu

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Divorce Records

2014-04-17 Thread Grace CM
Thanks, Pam. The city was San Diego. I've checked out the on-line leads to newspapers, as suggested by you and others (I had no idea divorces were reported in newspapers), and so far haven't found any on-line resources. I'll try Cheri's suggestion of libraries next. On Thursday, April 17, 2014

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Help with Marriage Record

2014-04-17 Thread Margaret Vicente
Appreciated Fred, but the credit is all Manoel's he got it. m On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Fred Estrella wrote: > Thanks to Margaret and Manoel for your help..."Mota" it is! > > Fred > > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Margaret Vicente < > margaretvice...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Manoel,

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Divorce Records

2014-04-17 Thread Pam Santos
What city did this take place. It would help for instance San Francisco there would be no records because if the fires during the earthquakes. But thee would be a notice in newspaper. My great grandmother divorced on 1902 and showed in newspaper. Also there is a lust of orphans in a orphanage in SF

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Half Moon Bay, CA

2014-04-17 Thread Eddie Machado
I created that find a grave memorial and have since gotten pictures. I also got the church records from 1880 showing the Cardoza family, I have to say that there are a ton of resources out there, but the people on here and everyone else that has helped me makes this an enjoyable hobby to have! Than

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Y dna Matches between Pico and Flores, looking for a list of original Flores settlers.

2014-04-17 Thread João Ventura
Hello all, I bought the book "A Ilha das Flores: da redescoberta à actualidade (Subsídios para a sua História)" last summer when I went to Flores. They have boxes and boxes of that book, waiting to be sold at the newly-inaugurated "Museum of Lajes das Flores". I couldn't find the museum contac

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Y dna Matches between Pico and Flores, looking for a list of original Flores settlers.

2014-04-17 Thread João Ventura
You can find the books online at http://www.azoreangenealogy.com/biblioteca_acoreana_livros.htm João Ventura http://tombo.pt/en On Thursday, 17 April 2014 06:03:20 UTC+2, Antonio Faria wrote: > > I haven't actually ever seen Volume VI only read articles that refer to it > I believe it contains

[AZORES-Genealogy] Got my mtDNA Results

2014-04-17 Thread Joseph Costa
This may be a question for Cheri to answer for me. I got my mtDNA full sequence results today. A bit overwhelming for me to try to interpret them. There were 17 possible matches listed for me for the HVR1, HVR2, Coding Region, one of whom is a lady from Italy who is an exact match, one has a

[AZORES-Genealogy] nursery rhyme from Brasil

2014-04-17 Thread Herb
Doug and Manoel. I believe that instead of barar a Casa it should be eu vou varrer a Casa. This means to sweep the house. As you know only the very rich had any sort of wooden flooring or cement or tile floors. Most homes had hard dirt floors. The women would sprinkle a little bit of water on