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…
First Stop: Passports and Consulate Logs
My great great grandparents, Jozimas de Braga and Maria da Conceicao de Mello arrived in Hawaii in Jun 1882. I had information from the census on when my Gr Gr Grandparents migrated to Hawaii. I checked the ship indexes and found their entry. This helped me find them in the Azorean Passports The couple was…