I live nearby the Riverside cemetery. It is the West Coast cemetery for
servicemen. Many veterans who passed away in Southern California are buried in
the Riverside National Cemetery.
Debbie Wolgemuth
Riverside, CA
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 18:15:20 -0800
From: annaoliverreal...@gmail.com
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My Azorean relatives came from Flores and settled in Merced. Many of their
neighbors were Azorean Portuguese farming alfalfa, sweet potatoes, tomatoes,
peaches, apricots, almonds and walnuts.
My Grandmother's Lineage
My ggf, Francisco Jorge/George, immigrated from the Azores (Flores) in 1889 a
Can you create a Gedcom off of your information in www.Ancestry.com?
Debbie Rodrigues Wolgemuth
From: gfsche...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 22:20:22 -0700
Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Family Tree DNA will give you a $10 off if you
upload your Gedcom
To: Azores@googlegroups.com
For those w
Thanks Cheri for all your help. My DNA kit came this week, completed it and
mailed it off. I'm looking forward to seeing the results and who it connects
me to in the Azores group.
Debbie Rodrigues Wolgemuth
> Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 14:42:23 -0500
> Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Family Find
Cheri, Thank you for mentioning Joseph-Machado disease and its concentration on
Flores. I read about the symptoms on the internet and I believe that my
grandmother had Joseph-Macado, although she just called it ataxia. I'm
thinking that her father (born on Flores, Azores) had it also as his l
My maternal grandfather was an alcoholic; a horrible disease. It was
interesting to discover how many generations back the alcoholism went as I
found an ancestor in the mid-1800's who was a prominent settler of a new town
in Georgia, but died young of alcoholism. You can track generation a
Celeste, Excellent observations! I am also in the midst of reading "Home is an
Island" which is an easy read. Hope to finish it this summer!
Debbie Wolgemuth
Riverside, California
Researching Azoreans: Jorge (Flores), Freitas (Flores), Enos (San Miguel),
Silveira Matos (Faial), Rodrigues (u
http://www.researchjournal.yourislandroutes.com/2011/08/announcement-portuguese-hawaiian-memories-is-back-in-print/
Debbie Wolgemuth
Researching Azoreans: Jorge (Flores), Freitas (Flores), Enos (San Miguel),
Silveira Matos (Faial), Rodrigues (unknown)
Immigrated to: Merced, CA
From: carab..
John, Please on pass on my information to whoever is organizing "Amigos das
Flores" in Fresno. My sister lives in Clovis and I live in Southern
California. We might like to attend.
Debbie wolgemuthwolgemut...@msn.com
Researching Azoreans: Jorge (Flores), Freitas (Flores), Enos (San Miguel),
Leopoldina as yours?
>
> Also, did we already establish our being related? My father's
> maternal grandmother was born Isabel T. Jorge in Ponta da Fajã Grande,
> Flores, in 1854. I can send you her baptismal info privately, if you
> wish.
>
> Katharine.
>
>
> On
While living in America, my great grandmother (Ava), Leopoldina always went by
Lena and great grandfather (Voo), Francisco went by Frank.
Debbie Rodrigues Wolgemuth
Researching Azoreans: Jorge (Flores), Freitas (Flores), Enos (San Miguel),
Silveira Matos (Faial), Rodrigues (unknown)
Immigrate
My great grandfather, Francisco George (Jorge) immigrated from the Azores in
1889 and entered the US through Boston. Today we think that Ellis Island and
NYC was the typical entrance to the US from the Atlantic, but it wasn't always
so. Ellis Island began as the main East immigran
My great-grandmother was also named Leopoldina. Once she came to the US in the
early 1900's, all of her legal documents used the name Lena.
Debbie Wolgemuth
(951) 756-4240 * Riverside Youth Theatre cell
Researching Azoreans: Jorge (Flores), Freitas (Flores), Enos (San Miguel),
Silveira Matos
Rosettes are so easy to make with a rosette iron
(http://www.sugarcraft.com/catalog/cooky/rosette.htm). The batter is mixed up
quickly, much like a pancake batter. You heat up the frying oil. You select
the metal rosette attachment you want (flower, holiday shape, etc.) and screw
it onto th
Katherine,
My relatives from Flores always had a FILHOS FEAST on Ash Wednesday. We'd meet
at the family ranch, have filhos hot out of the frying pan...drizzled with
butter, then ate with either jam or a dusting of sugar and a slice of cheddar
cheese. It's a tradition that I've continued
San Francisco Examiner The San Francisco Chronicle
Debbie Wolgemuth
Researching Azoreans: Jorge (Flores), Freitas (Flores), Enos (San Miguel),
Silveira Matos (Faial), Rodrigues (unknown)
Immigrated to: Merced, CA
From: gfsche...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:53:41 -0700
Subject: [AZORES
Ginger,
Epiphany: a Christian festival, observed on January 6, commemorating the
manifestation of Christ to the gentiles in the persons of the Magi; Twelfth-day.
For some cultures, epiphany is as important as our traditional Christmas Day.
Debbie Wolgemuth
Researching Azoreans: Jorge (Fl
Linda,
My cousin worked for a physician in the Bay Area and he treated many Azorean
Portuguese patients. Once he found that my cousin was Azorean Portuguese, the
doctor noted to my cousin that there were several physical problems to look for
because of the family "interbreeding" on the small
Bob,
I grew up in Merced, CA and my great grandparents immigrated from the Azores.
I was fortunate to have known them and they lived into my high school years.
Francisco Jorge arrived in Boston, MA and traveled by train to Merced, CA in
the late 1800's. Leopoldina Freitas arrived through N
Cheri,
I had my son's DNA analyzed through www.ancestry.com since he's my only male
living relative. I have the results (Haplogroup H and more details), but what
do you do with the information beyond that. Is there an Azorean group where we
can see if we match?
Debbie Wolgemuth
Researching
We pronounced it soap-age. We make it occasionally when all the family gets
together in Central California. Add a piece of mint on top of the bread and
meat. We eat it with a dill pickle. Yummy!
Debbie Wolgemuth
Researching Azoreans: Jorge (Flores), Freitas (Flores), Enos (San Miguel),
Si
Janis,
The Los Angeles Times would cover East Los Angeles. You might also check
papers from nearby surrounding cities, including Montebello and Alhambra.
I lived in Whittier years ago and the Whittier Daily News did cover news from
surrounding cities, including Norwalk. A Norwalk obituary
My great grandmother traveled from the Azores to California, entered through
Ellis Island and took the train across the country to California. My mother
recalls that my great grandfather paid for a female traveling companion to
escort Lena to California, because it was not proper for a lady to
Another excellent thing about passport applications is many include a picture.
I have found pictures for several ancestors on their passport applications. A
blessing to have for my genealogy files. It is amazing to look at one of them
from taken in about 1920...I look exactly like that ances
>From the Ellis Island website:
Ellis Island was in operation from 01 Jan 1892 through 1954.
I easily located my great grandmother's entrance through Ellis Island in about
1905. Couldn't locate my great grandfather's entrance until I realized that he
entered the US before Ellis Island was i
Jenn,
My mother's family tree is extensively based from Europe (England, German,
Ireland). I also have royalty throughout several generations in England, who
also married those in French, Spanish and Italian royal lines. Because they
were royalty, excellent records were kept. There is ex
Frank,
The Franklin District that is mentioned in the obit is also near the Buhach
Colony. It is on the border of Merced and Atwater near where eventually Castle
AFB would be built, and both cities are mentioned throughout the obit. The
Catholic Church that the Portuguese in the area attend
Katharine and Eric,
My great grandfather was Francisco Jose Jorge (1871 - 1963) and he immigrated
to the US in 1889 settling in Merced in the Buhach Colony. He was the son of
Antonio Jose Jorge and Ana de Jesus. Francisco's daughter, Marie E George
married Edwin W Rodrigues, grandson of Mar
Adair,
Have you tried FindaGrave.com online? I've located several relatives grave
information on this site.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi
Debbie Wolgemuth
Riverside, California
Researching Azoreans: Jorge (Flores), Freitas (Flores), Enos (San Miguel),
Silveira Matos (Faial), R
Cheri,
I live about 45 minutes from Hemet. Would you like me to drive to the cemetery
sometime and take pictures of the headstones? It seems to be quite popular
with my ancestors in the South (Georgia, Florida). Let me know the cemetery
name and I'll stop by to take pictures and e-mail t
www.ancestry.com has a way to list all the various spellings of the person in
the record. You do have to select one name that is the preferred name. I've
seen in old census records where people were listed with their initials,
nicknames, first names, middle names and spelling errors in differ
Here is my Flores ancestry. It was a blessing to know my great grandparents as
they lived into their late 80's/early 90's. They only spoke Portuguese, but
were very loving to me. I think my relatives were a part of the Flores
Drinking Society too. My grandmother and Ava loved drinking the P
http://socialsciences.academickeys.com/whoswho.php?dothis=display&folk%5BIDX%5D=479979
Maria Ioannis Benis Baganha, Professor, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Debbie Wolgemuth
Researching Jorge, Freitas, Rodrigues, Enos
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To: azores@googlegroups.com
Subject: [
Their menu is online. The only Portuguese food listed was linguisa.
Debbie Wolgemuth
Researching Jorge, Rodrigues, Enos in Merced, CA
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:04:16 -0800
From: kabogg...@sbcglobal.net
Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Restaurant name
To: azores@googlegroups.com
I hea
Frank,
I've discovered from connections on this list, that many of the Azoreans who
came to Merced were from Flores, as were my great grandparents.
Debbie Wolgemuth
Researching: Jorge, Rodrigues, Enos who settled in Merced, CA
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:12:11 -0500
Subject: [AZORES-Gen
Many local community colleges in California offer Portuguese foreign language
courses. Riverside Community College has a class offered for the spring
semester.
Debbie Wolgemuth
Riverside, CA
Researching Jorge, Rodrigues, Enos
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I believe that you can go to a Title Company and request a report showing the
entire history of the property. We went to a bed and breakfast in California's
wine country and they had did this and framed it. The title report went back
to the Spanish who owned the land...interesting.
Debbie Ro
Thank you for the blessings of help in finding the holes to my
Portuguese/Azores ancestors! I am trying to finish this project soon to send
my 90+ year old Great Aunt, whose parents immigrated from Flores. Her memory
is fading and it is difficult wading through what she can remember...a few
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