Examples of Inventarios

[Cheri Mello]

Here's one from 1914. It's a small inventory.

Cover:

2nd and 3rd pages were fill in the blank forms and seem to state they paid for his funeral and distributed anything else. 

Page 4 in this packet - a copy of his obito:

The next couple of pages named his widow as his executor and probably some legal blah blah blah.

Then the actual inventory starts. After saying who is doing it, it starts listing offspring:

By the time his wife dies in 1931, it's a more fill in the blank forms. Not as much penmanship to try to decipher. The wife's death was 2 pages (which is at the Civil Registry and they don't do a search. You have to give them a date and I didn't have a date. So this was a goldmine for me):

I only gave you page one. Then more pages of whatever and then the kids. This time, it doesn't say they are absent, it gives a location:

Her packet had some typed pages in them, although I don't know what they say.

I have seen others where they list the grandchildren and greats too!

These are NOT digitized and are NOT online anywhere. When they saw me taking pictures, they asked that I not put them online anywhere as there could be living people listed (Public Service Announcement: the ones I posted - everyone listed is deceased).

A finding aid exists for these (at least for Sao Miguel island).

https://arquivos.azores.gov.pt/

In the search box, I typed in: correia tainhas (because it's the only freguesia with Tainhas in the name). I scroll until I find my ancestor:

You screenshot that and send it to the archives and ask them how much to copy the inventory for genealogical purposes. They won't do the whole packet for you. I got the whole packet when I went there because I requested it at the counter and they brought it to me. I then took my camera and started copying each page. But they will scan and send you pages related to genealogy. Or what they consider of genealogical importance. To be sure you are getting what you need, it's best to go there and do it yourself. Then you can decide for yourself. Or if you aren't fluent (like me), you just copy every page and decipher it all later.

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

[Emanuel Resendes]

  Cheri,

Thanks for sharing.  I've already found one for my great grandmother.

[Donna Hinson]

Emanuel,

I have a match on FTDNA who is listed as Emanuel Cabral Resendes.  Are you that Emanual Resendes? 

Donna Hinson

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