[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Horta Record Office and Whaling

2011-09-02 Thread Katharine
Please don't feel bad, Duane, because I doubt I'd have known this either, had my father and his sister not attended Uni. Katharine. -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Horta Record Office and Whaling

2011-09-02 Thread Duane De Mello
Katharine: I am ashamed of myself for not knowing this. I went there when it became Oakland City College, receiving an A.A. in 1963. Thank you. Cheers, Duane On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Katharine wrote: > Oakland's University High School (known affectionately as "Uni"): > > http://en.wi

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Horta Record Office and Whaling

2011-09-01 Thread Katharine
This MAY be the book I was thinking of. Bockstoce, John R. "Whales, ice, and men : the history of whaling in the western Arctic." Published jointly by the New Bedford Whaling Museum and the University of Washington Press (Seattle). Two editions. LC # q SH382 B63 1986 See: http://www.worldcat.

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Horta Record Office and Whaling

2011-09-01 Thread Katharine
Oakland's University High School (known affectionately as "Uni"): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_High_School_%28Oakland,_California%29 In relevant part: "University High School served the northwestern portion of Oakland California. It originally opened in 1923 at what was 5714 Grove Stre

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Horta Record Office and Whaling

2011-09-01 Thread Katharine
Can't recall if the book I read is one of the references on this page, but it might be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_Disaster_of_1871 -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more opti

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Horta Record Office and Whaling

2011-09-01 Thread Duane De Mello
I'm curious about "Oakland's legendary University HS." Where and what is the school you are referring to? I am from Oakland and never heard of it. Thank you. Cheers, Duane On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Katharine wrote: > Hey John (V & F) and everyone else > > The coincidences just keep pili

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Horta Record Office and Whaling

2011-09-01 Thread Katharine
Hey John (V & F) and everyone else The coincidences just keep piling up! I attended high school with two of Henry Miller's descendants (family hailed from Gustine), and even college with one. Their mom (married into the Miller clan) coincidentally attended Oakland's legendary University HS with

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Horta Record Office and Whaling

2011-09-01 Thread John Vasconcelos
Hi cousin Kathie, Not only do you and I keep missing each other, It appears that your great grandfather Noronha and my maternal Grandfather Jose Joaquim de Freitas (who was born in Fajazinha) may have started what may be a family tradition (of just missing each other). According to family lore (mos