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From: Eugenia Paine Rapasky <>
Subject: [AZORES-L] Name Fraga
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 09:23:17 -0700 (PDT)


I checked my database one PORTUGUESE NAMES AND THEIR MEANINGS and found
the following for FRAGA:

Fraga -

Fonseca, Foncequa, Fraga da Fraga, Fragua
Information is from:
Doug da Rocha Holmes, "NAMING TRADITIONS, SURNAME TYPES", OProgresso,
Dece. 1995, Vol. 14, No. 4, page 10

Information is from:
Doug da Rocha Holmes, "NAMING TRADITIONS, SURNAME TYPES", OProgresso,
Dece. 1995, Vol. 14, No. 4, page 10

Fraga -
Family name.
Information is from the book:
James H. Guill, A HISTORY OF THE AZORES ISLANDS, Golden Shield
International, Vol. 5, 1993, page 203.

Fraga - This is a surname commonly used in Portuguese and Brazilian
Portuguese.
Information is from:
BASIC PORTUGUESE PALEOGRAPHY, The Genealogical Department of the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Series II, No., 20, 1978, page
27.

Fraga - is a family name of a early portuguese immigrant in
California.
Information is from:
Carlos Almeida, PORTUGUESE IMMIGRANTS, Published by: The Supreme
Cluncil of U.P.E.C., San Leandro, CA,1978, page 269.


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We hope these names have been helpful to you. If you see something
that needs to be corrected, please let us know.

Currently doing research on several names, have over 6,000 Portuguese
names have been collected.

Editor and Collector of the "PORTUGUESE NAMES AND THEIR MEANINGS":
Eugenia (Paine) Rapasky,

Genealogy of Eugenia (Paine) Rapasky:
My mother is Portuguese. My grandmother's surname: DECOSTA was from
Ribeira Seca, Sao Jorge, Azores, Portugal. And
My grandfather's surname: RODRIGUES, is from Santa Barbara, Pico,
Azores, Portugal.

My father's surname: PAINE, is from Great Ellingham, Norfolk County,
England. The Paine family first settle in Rehoboth, MA..
His mother's surname was HENDRY, French-Canadian

The research and collection is put together in memory of my Portuguese
grandparents who came to America in the early 1900s, with a few
belongings and a dream in their hearts. They could not read or write
in Portuguese. They made their home in Tracy, San Joaquin Co.,
California, USA.

Eugenia
Concord, CA, USA




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