i will be visiting **** Island this May. We are coming from America and my ancestors are from the i

User15823043042529867170

i will be visiting **** Island this May. We are coming from America and my ancestors are from the island. My grandmother's ancestors last name is Naves and my grandfather's last name was Soares. In the states the last name was changed to Sears.

ANINHAS

Please see this site to find your Azores Island ancestors

• http://www.ghp.ics.uminho.pt/genealogias.html

Ali.M. Pili

If you do not know which Catholic parish on **** Island they are from (12 parishes, I believe) I suggest you use tombo.pt to locate the passport which should give birth info. Follow the link on bottom left of home page to Acores and you will find three possible areas they could have received their passport. After determining more specific info from the the passports then you can use the same tombo.pt site to locate parish records by following "Acores" to "Ilhas" (islands) to "Concehlo" (county) to "Freguesias" (parishes). This is all on the left side of page. Once you have the parish then you should be able to locate a lot of family info.

User15823043042529867170

Thank you this is very helpful! My great grandparents, Maria de Gloria pererria and Antonio neves we’re both born in the 1870s in fayal, ****. If you have any further information, please let me know.

thank you so much,

Carol Schmidt

DSGurtler

The site mentioned by Ana has indexed records for ****. This article from the FamilySearch Wiki will tell you how to search the site. https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Azores,_Portugal_Genealogy#Grupo_de_Hist.C3.B3ria_das_Popula.C3.A7.C3.B5es