Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] History of Faial, mid-1700s

2016-11-03 Thread Cheri Mello
Google Translate is able to translate about half the web site. After that, you need to copy and paste portions. It does a fair enough job to make sense. In some of the incidences, they recorded the number of deaths. One said 7000 deaths. I do wonder how accurate and population statistics was back

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] History of Faial, mid-1700s

2016-11-03 Thread Margaret Vicente
Here's the Azores chronology of Natural disasters but it is in Portuguese. https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cronologia_de_desastres_naturais_nos_A%C3%A7ores On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Cheri Mello wrote: > Repost for mufflevski at gmail.com > > Hello, I'm very interested in the history of Fai

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] History of Faial, mid-1700s

2016-11-03 Thread Margaret Vicente
Sorry, to answer your question and according to the timeline here's what happened in Faial in the 1700 hundredes. Hope you can read it. It was an Epidemic in the places you mentioned - 1717 -1718 — Epidemia no Faial

[AZORES-Genealogy] History of Faial, mid-1700s

2016-11-02 Thread Cheri Mello
Repost for mufflevski at gmail.com Hello, I'm very interested in the history of Faial during the mid 1700s. Our Rocha family lived there (Flamengos and Horta) during that time. We think they may have been in the military (because they moved frequently). This would have been after the Portuguese Re