Found Another Child of Paulo da Silva and Ana de Vasconcelos

I searched the Madeira Archives using %Paulo%da Silva% as the father, then sorted the result by the mother’s name. I found another child named (surprise, surprise) Maria. Child Maria Father Paulo da Silva de Melim Mother Ana Joaquina de Vasconcelos* Parish Porto Santo Date 20-05-1827 Book 985 Leaf 104 Comments Casou em 2.ªs núpcias em [...]

Searched for José and Clara Soares’ Marriage Record

I searched the Madeira Archive marriage database for their record. Based on census records, the couple were married around 1883. Wanting to get as many hits as possible I searched using %José% and %Clara% as the husband and the wife respectively. The search produced one result, which was not a match. I then remembered that [...]

Searched for José Soares’s Passport to the U.S.A.

I searched the Madeira Archive’s Passport Database for José Soares. I first searched using José Soares in the search field searching the “Exact phrase.” The results included too many hits that were not a possibility, so I used the advanced search. I searched using José Soares as the petitioner. I then sorted the 14 results [...]

Searched Judicial Proceedings in Porto Santo

The Madeira Regional Archives has enlarged its databases with judicial proceedings which include 19,262 crime and civil suits from 1790 until 1973. I decided to search it to see if any of my ancestors were listed in it. I went to the advanced search and chose Nossa Senhora da Piedade for the parish. I did [...]

Pedro de Melim and Escolástica Drumond Family

I felt impressed to search out this family. For some reason or another I thought I need to do more research on Escolástica, or that I know more about her than I realize I do. I began by searching for this family in the Arquivo Regional da Madeira’s baptism database. Using the advanced search function [...]

Old Research Log

I used to have an older version of my research log. It was a Google Document. I wanted to add it to my new blog so it can be found in one place. I have updated the links so they will give the same results that I found but with English headers (ie Parish instead [...]