Author: Melody Lassalle

[Research Journal #6, Entry #9] I was making any head way with Felicianno so I decided to search for his siblings. I started with the marriage records. I was surprised to find only one siblings married in the 1840s. Jacinto Jose de Mello married Francisca Emilia Paiva on 9 Jan 1841. As the baptismal records…

[Journal #6, Entry #8] As I mentioned before their was a rule about when people marry. I used that rule to search for Felicianno and Rosa’s baptismal records. As they were married in 1840, I thought I’d start my search around 1825. I found Rosa with relative ease. She was baptised 7 Mar 1824 in…

[Research Journal #6, Entry #7 ]I didn’t find any more children for Felicianno and Rosa prior to 1841. It was time to look for their marriage record. I began with 1841 and worked my way backwards. I was very lucky in that I only had to go back a year. Felicianno and Rosa were married…

Next on my list was to find Maria da Conceicao’s baptismal record. It wouldn’t hurt to find her siblings either! So, back to the Family History Center I went. I was getting pretty good with baptismal records. If the same Priest wrote the records, they had a pattern. You could easily find the pertinent information…

[Research Journal #6, Entry #5] My next stop would be to find Jozimas and Maria’s marriage records. Marriage records intimidated me. They were long and wordy. I was learning which phrases to pick out but it wasn’t all that easy for a novice like me! I figured that they were married somewhere around 1870 based…