This week I decided to concentrate on the early 1700s in Achada to see if I could take my tree back any further in that village. It’s becoming clear to me that many of my lines originate in other villages. I wanted to focus my work on the lines that I know stayed in Achada…
Tag: Azores
The Demotion of X, Y, and Z in Portuguese Names
I’ve been working exclusively with the records of Achada in the Azores for the last month. I’ve worked from the 1870s back to the early 1700s. I’m getting a snapshot of spelling conventions and how things change over time. It’s interesting to me to see how widely used the letters x, y, and z were…
It was bound to happen
I’ve gone through many pages of the baptismal and marriage books for Achada, Nordeste. Some pages are better than others. Up until now I’ve avoided finding a match that was unreadable. Until now. Looks a bit like one of the better fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls, doesn’t it? It’s a baptismal record for the…
Ana Jacinta’s Baptismal Record: More Questions than Answers
As with many records that I find, I ended up with a whole set of questions that I didn’t have in the first place. This week I found my Gr Gr Grandmother’s baptismal record. It was a record I had search for many years. Ana Jacintha (de Melo) Pacheco was born and baptized in 1835…
I finally found Ana Jacinta’s baptismal record
Before arthritis (also known as the time period B.A.), I used to go to the Family History Center in Oakland once or twice a month. I spent many hours pouring over the microfilm for Achada, Nordeste, Sao Miguel Island, Azores. I had a mystery to solve and the answer was in those microfilms. I had…