No news

Well, unfortunately I don’t bring you any news, because I haven’t had much time to devote myself to this research.

But I had been in Beja’s Archive, and discovered that I’ve lost all my data on dates and numbers of accents in the parish books, so I could’t do much, and had to look to all the information again. I learned my lesson! Now I have everything organized and a copy of the accents so that I don’t lose any more time due to a person whose registration I lost.

My goals have changed too, I left the brothers and sisters of my direct family to my mother to look for, and I’m giving all my attention to the demand of the first person with this name.

We also discovered some interesting things for the maintenance of the parish books and sources to find people. First, the books that’re in poor condition are taken to the Torre do Tombo in Lisbon to be preserved and digitized, but the TT does not send any copy of those to the Archives in the Districts, which requires people to go to Lisbon to continue their search.

Second, we have the process of the Inquisition (available somewhere on the site of Torre do Tombo), which allows searching by name, if there is a process we have access to several generations of the family in one place.

I also updated my account on the site My Heritage, I had too much information there and I started it again.

Bye bye