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,…
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Praise for FindaGrave Volunteers for de Braga family tombstone photos
Recently, I searched FindaGrave for Seraphim and Olympia (Medeiros) de Braga. I found both listed but without photographs. I put in a request and got a response the next day! After I had that information, I decided to search for more relatives. I found several more listed without photographs, so I put in more requests. …
Francisca (Mello) Pacheco’s Individual Summary
Unfortunately, the further we go back with Portuguese records, the less we can learn about our female ancestors. The only thing I can gather about Francisca is that that she was born, married, raised a family, and died in the same village–Maia. Some day I will go back to the parish records and I’ll find…
Margaret (Caetano) Mello’s Individual Summary
Margaret’s mother was a cousin to my great great grandmother, Maria da Conceicao (de Mello) de Braga. Her parents also came to Hawaii as contract laborers to work on the sugar plantations. (Note: This photo is the only one I have of Margaret. It comes from her application for a delayed birth certificate.) Name: Margaret…
Learning More from an Azorean Death Record
Portuguese death records are called “obitos”. For most years, those obitos will be found in church records. If you’ve worked with the records of the 1800s, you know that most obitos offer very little information. They give the name of the deceased, the date of death, their age at death, what parish they were a…