Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Godparents

2018-07-16 Thread Elizabeth Migliori
Excellent info thank you Sent from my iPad > On Jul 16, 2018, at 10:59 AM, Rosemarie Capodicci wrote: > > Thank you so much,Margaret! It helps us to have a little "Portuguese" > language lesson for the docs! > > Rosemarie > rcap...@gmail.com > Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Godparents

2018-07-16 Thread Rosemarie Capodicci
Thank you so much,Margaret! It helps us to have a little "Portuguese" language lesson for the docs! Rosemarie rcap...@gmail.com Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 10:35 AM, Margaret Vicente < margaretv

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Godparents

2018-07-16 Thread Margaret Vicente
Attempting to read these records is not easy but this one is very clear. We must pay attention to the "articles, de, do e da" these help qualify the nouns and adjectives so we can properly interpret what we're looking at. Note it says: do Doutro Caetano Jose de Mesquita. The article do in this ca

RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Godparents

2018-07-16 Thread Richard Francis Pimentel
I lean toward Doctor if he had meant “doutro” the letter D should not have been capitalized. The way to tell for sure would be to check other records in the time frame and see if his name is written as Doctor. From: azores@googlegroups.com [mailto:azores@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of ken