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Barbara Davis

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Oct 10, 2015, 12:58:07 AM10/10/15

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I am still extremely new to family history in general, and REALLY new (been working on it now for about 3 weeks) to researching my family in the Azores. I have almost exclusively used Tombo to find records, and just saw that there is a marriage index. May I ask if there are links to other great resources, and if so, what they are? I am also on both ancestry and family search but have found that for the Azores they aren't really much help. Any tips or tricks would be greatly appreaciated.

Thanks!

Barbara

Cheri Mello

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Oct 10, 2015, 1:07:13 AM10/10/15

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I would trace my non-immigrant lines first, so I could learn the ropes about U.S. vital records, censuses, city directories, etc, etc. Once I'm having really good success with American lines, then I'd tackle the immigrants.

Your public library has a lot of good books on basic genealogy. You may have a local adult school or genealogy society that offers classes for beginners too.

I don't know what you mean that Tombo has a marriage index. Tombo is a portal to the CCA. The CCA has records to the districts, then islands, then councils, and then freguesias. Once you get down to the freguesia level, there are mostly birth, marriage, and death records. There are a few scatter records, such as legitimizations and indices, but these are incomplete.

Ancestry and Family Search won't have anything on the Azores.

Cheri Mello
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Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada

Barbara Davis

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Oct 10, 2015, 4:55:20 PM10/10/15

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I have gotten pretty efficient at researching American records and directories, but I am only the first generation born in the states. The marriage Index I referred to isn't through Tombo - I saw it's link in one of the posts here in this group. I just didn't know if there were other indices, as well. I am enjoying what I'm learning but am frustrated by what I don't know. I live a little more than an hour from SLC, UT due to my husband's job and was able to go to the Genealogy Library for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, but I am sad to say that already I knew more about researching Azores lineage than they did.

Barb Davis

Cheri Mello

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Oct 10, 2015, 9:01:27 PM10/10/15

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Family Search, from the FHL in Salt Lake, sends staff members to our Azorean Genealogy Conference. Maybe those staff members have moved on now.

Marilyn Thompson

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Oct 10, 2015, 9:56:19 PM10/10/15

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Barbara talk to the employees. Sign up to get help from them. It is just a matter of getting a pager and waiting a few minutes for research help. The missionaries, black and white name tags do not know the research part the gold badge employees do.

Go back and try again. Debbie Gurtler is very knowledgable.

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Cheri Mello

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Oct 10, 2015, 10:14:50 PM10/10/15

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Debbie Gurtler and Arturo C_____ are the two that took our class about 4 years ago. I didn't see Arturo there last time. I saw Debbie, but I don't know if she's still there.

Cheri Mello
Listowner, Azores-Gen
Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada

Marilyn Thompson

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Oct 10, 2015, 10:32:33 PM10/10/15

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Yes Debbie is still there. I saw her this last week. She does do a lot of conferences around the country. So she is not always at the FHL.

I can not think of Arturo's last name. I think he is still there also, but I have not seen him lately. I have been doing client research on the second and third floors.

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Marilyn Thompson

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Oct 11, 2015, 2:24:58 PM10/11/15

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Barb

Is there a better day of the week for you?

Marilyn

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Barbara Davis <smarte...@gmail.com> wrote:

Marilyn, I would love to meet up with you there sometime and have you show me a few tricks. You name it and I'll make it happen.

Barb

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