RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Lomba, Flores marriage records

2012-03-13 Thread Debra Wolgemuth
San Miguel), Silveira Matos (Faial), Rodrigues (unknown) Immigrated to: Merced, CA Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:09:25 -0700 Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Lomba, Flores marriage records From: gfsjo...@gmail.com To: azores@googlegroups.com CC: alcid...@sbcglobal.net Duane, The fire theory was my co

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Lomba, Flores marriage records

2012-03-13 Thread John Vasconcelos
Duane, The fire theory was my cousin's. (I actually don't remember the cousin who told me). You say that pages appeared to have been torn out. That might indicate that someone in the past who had access to the parish registers was trying to cover up an embarassing illegitmate birth to protect the

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Lomba, Flores marriage records

2012-03-13 Thread Duane
Thanks for the reply, John. Lomba seems to be crawling with Mendonca's, which is the line I am tracing. I noticed that the records don't go back very far there, so I am not surprised that there might have been a fire. In the book I was referring to in the original post, it seems like maybe t

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Lomba, Flores marriage records

2012-03-12 Thread John Vasconcelos
Duane, My father was born in Lomba and I experienced that same problem with those records. According to a cousin who was also born in Lomba, many records are missing She thinks there might have been some records lost in a fire. The situation is particularly bad in my paternal grandmother's line whi