Portuguese Hawaiian Genealogy history and Heritage
Welcome to the new and improved YourIslandRoutes.com. Or, at least, it will be when I get done! I apology for the dust, but this website hasn’t been updated in a long time In the meantime, I’ll have both versions of the website running at the same time. This means things will be quite messy for…
Last August, I went to São Miguel island, one of the nine Azores islands. I had a referral to a specific taxi driver, Joe, who was known to be pretty good at helping genealogists find families…and he was bilingual, too! I did find Joe, and on our scheduled day, we went to the village that…
Locate the island your ancestor was from. The left column lists the freguesia (like our town/city). The right column lists the church(es) for that freguesia. Each council has 1 large church, which has the designation “Matriz” (Mother Church). Most church records were filmed. Those that were not filmed have an asterik (*) by the name…