In a message dated 4/2/2009 11:36:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
researchp...@gmail.com writes:
n the book, Azores, Nine Islands, it talks about Rodas or Casas da
Roda, where a baby could be left anonymously, much as we now have
safe houses in the United States, when someone gives up a baby. It
I found my gfather thru his village church and found out on his baptismal
certificate that he had been placed on the wheel and then was adopted by a
family that very next day. Being placed on the wheel apparently was a custom
that allowed a family, or unwed mother, to go to a church and place
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