I’m coining that phrase. I’ve been working on my cousin’s Raposo line. It seemed a simple request. Figure out if Francisco Raposo and Manoel Raposo of Kilauea were really brothers. To start, the birth place information in some records in Hawaii was inconsistent. I sorted it out and identified they were from the village of…
Category: Azorean Roots
A very young marriage
I came across a marriage for the sibling of one of my ancestor that gave me pause to think. The marriage is for Joze Correa and Roza de Rezendes. He is the son of Mateus Correa and Maria de Mello. She is the daughter of Domingos Pimentel and Barbara de Rezendes. They were married in…
What’s wrong with these ages?
I thought I would do something nice for some cousins this weekend. As some of the Azorean church records are online, I thought I would look through them and find some of my great and great great aunts and uncles. I was able to locate Francisco de Boa Ventura in Sao Jose, Ponta Delgada fairly…
What do you do when you can’t read the writing?
I am working in records in different village records on Sao Miguel Island, Azores. This means I must read the Portuguese language records. Did I tell you that I don’t know any Portuguese beyond swear words? Well, I have learned some since starting my family tree. I can translate a baptismal record like nobody’s business. …
This may be why I can’t find the marriage
This weekend I decided to redo the work another researcher did for me on Francisco de Medeiros and Josefa de Mello. The town of Maia isn’t on the Azores Archives website yet, so I thought Povoacao was as good as any place to research. I found their son, Joao de Mello’s, baptismal record first. Then,…