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Subject: [AZORES-L] Re: AZORES-D Digest V99 #221
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 01:57:19 EDT
Hello Judy,
I had the great luck to visit my grandfather's home village of Pedro Miguel,
Faial, in 1996 and was able to copy some of their confession rolls....which
are just what you described....a census with odds and ends of information.
It is very interesting to see who lives on the streets of the village etc.
If anyone has Pedro Miguel ancestry, I would be willing to look up their
ancestors in the copies that I have....however I cannot promise when I can
get that done as following a family through the years can be very time
consuming. The rolls that I have are from about 1850 until just after the
turn of the century. I would need a complete family name in order to
search....mother, father, child, as much info about the family unit as
possible. You must have knowledge that your family was from this village for
sure as it is too time intensive to look for families as a basis of "ruling
out" that they might have come from Pedro Miguel :)
I am very curious to know if anyone else has had access to these rolls from
any other village or if anyone knows if the biblioteca in Faial has any of
the villages in their archives? The rolls that I was able to view were kept
by the parish priest.
Susan Vargas Murphy
Sacramento
In a message dated 9/27/99 8:19:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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Hi Judy,
The proper term in English for this Portuguese reference is Confession
Rolls. These are certainly interesting but don't count of finding them. And
you can't find them on microfilm by the LDS. It is the closest thing to a
census, as you said.
Susan Vargas Murphy copied the ones she could find for the village of Pedro
Miguel, Faial island. And I have seen them mentioned in some references in
Angra in the 1700s, about the oldest ones being from about 1734, if I recall.
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