I’m working through the Obitos (death records) for the village of Maia, Ribeira Grande, Sao Miguel Island, Azores. Sometimes death records can be depressing. They also present questions that can’t really be answered unless someone has written a history of the area. Case in point, I am working on the 1860s. In 1860, there were…
Tag: Obitos
Resolving Lost Children in My de Braga Line
Boy, my blogging has been slim to nothing lately. I apologize but a huge project with a deadline was dumped on me at the end of August and I couldn’t do anything else. I’m still in the midst of it. Of course, right in the middle of this project, the records I’ve been waiting on…
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…