[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…
Another Baptismal Record
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…
A Marriage Record Found
[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…
My First Portuguese Adventure
Research Journal #6, Entry #5 I set out for the Family History Center one day determined that this intimidating structure would not beat me! My first stop was the card catalog file. I knew that my couple was from the town of Maia and that the church I needed was Divino Esperito Santo. By this…
Maria’s Baptismal Record Found
[Research Journal #6, Entry 3] I began visiting the Portuguese Genealogy Chat on AOL (run by my friends and fellow researchers, Cheri Mello and Linda Crandall) and was boosting my research self esteem. I learned that I could order baptismal records for my Portuguese kin by mail. I was pretty sure the Family History Center…