n the
> early 1600s.
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> Original Message
> Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] death in Niteroi, Brasil
> From: Isabella Baltar
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Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] death in Niteroi, Brasil
From: Isabella Baltar <myportuguese...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, August 28, 2013 8:57 am
To: azores@googlegroups.com
Doug, I have a few corrections to add to the translated text, a
nealogist
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> Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] death in Niteroi, Brasil
> From: João_Ventura >
> Date: Wed, August 28, 2013 12:25 am
> To: azo...@googlegroups.com
>
> Doug, your translation is more or less right.
se the other Joao Ventura descends from a Cardoso
> Ventura line from Sao Roque do Pico that moved to Terceira in the late
> 1700s.
>
> Doug da Rocha Holmes
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Thanks, Joao C! The examples are funny too! I could only imagine some
Spaniards in the room!
OK, Doug, you better double check your chart to make sure that no one was
the product of the milkman - er, water man! ;-)
Also, Doug, I asked Joao C Ventura to come up with something besides
writing "Th
late 1700s.Doug da Rocha HolmesSacramento, CaliforniaPico & Terceira Genealogist916-550-1618www.dholmes.com
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Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] death in Niteroi, Brasil
From: João_Ventura <j...@venturas.org>
Date: Wed, August 28, 2013 12:25 am
Hi all,
Yes, these are what we call 'false friends' words that look alike, but have
completely different meanings.. One of the best ones is
constipation/constipação, in Portuguese it simply means 'cold (sickness)',
in English you know what it means :). Best one is in Spanish though -
embaraza
Here, in California, we can have bottled water (in a 5 gallons jug - or
about 19 liters) that we place into a water dispenser. One of the
companies that delivers this water is Sparkletts. So the guy was the
Sparkletts man!
No wonder Eliseu is laughing so hard at us Americans! :-)
Cheri Mello
L
LOLOLOLOLOL!
Sorry guys I had to laugh!
The poor guy was just a water supplier! This was a common trade at the time
and in Brasil. "PIPAS" means barrels). It doesn't matter if he was not
upper class or not. The guy was an honnest imigrant making for the living.
of course this was a respectabl
t;
>>>> I didn't yet look on a map to find that part of the city.
>>>>
>>>> My brother was born in Niteroi in 1952 when my family was living there.
>>>> It was before they built a bridge to Rio and one had to take a ferry to
>>>> cross
e bay.
>>>
>>> We have slides of Corcovado, that famous statue of Christ on the
>>> mountain overlooking Rio.
>>>
>>> Doug da Rocha Holmes
>>> Sacramento, California
>>> Pico & Terceira Genealogist
>>> 916-550-1618
>>>
>>
>> Doug da Rocha Holmes
>> Sacramento, California
>> Pico & Terceira Genealogist
>> 916-550-1618
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>>
>> Original Message
>> Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] death in Niteroi, Brasil
>&
rigado,Doug da Rocha HolmesSacramento, CaliforniaPico & Terceira Genealogist916-550-1618www.dholmes.com
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Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] death in Niteroi, Brasil
From: mances <man...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, August 27, 2013 3:28 pm
To: azores@googlegroups.com
Doug,I am
ng Rio.
>
> Doug da Rocha Holmes
> Sacramento, California
> Pico & Terceira Genealogist
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> Original Message
> Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] death in Niteroi, Brasil
> From: Cheri Mello >
> Date: Tue, Aug
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Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] death in Niteroi, Brasil
From: Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, August 27, 2013 2:46 pm
To: Azores Genealogy <azores@googlegroups.com>
This obit is from 1878? So someone with water pipes
it is an amazing journey that keeps opening up new roads and sometimes running
you right into a stone wall--great fun!
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Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 4:20:16 PM
Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] death in Niteroi, Bras
This obit is from 1878? So someone with water pipes would have been
considered upper class?
Cheri Mello
Listowner, Azores-Gen
Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas,
Achada
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Wow Doug, this is a GREAT find! It holds out hope for me that I will eventually
find my greatgrandmother that went to Brazil and never returned!!
Rosemarie
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