I revisited this site,, and though I can't speak Portugeuse where I found some interesting notes. that I could decipher..I did see deFreitas as Regional Secretaries etc. but the one thing that really got my attention was that I saw at "Base de Dados do Reister de Casarents". was the Fiche Tenica: listing a Luis de Souza Melo (Registstas do Funchals. You might remember my efforts on the our site of trying to find a connection between our great grandfather Sebastian deFreitas and a Sophia Mariea deSouza who was mentioned in his Will of 1887 was his wife.. only time we ever knew what her name was....so this tells me I might be close to locating deSouza's there also at some time.. Thanks for the little clues you all send.. I might actually find her someday!! ---- Lenora- From: <Alfalu@aol.com> To: <CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 6:00 PM Subject: Madeira Exiles > Check out Madeira Exiles <A HREF="http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~madeira/">Welcome to Madeira Exiles</A> > > > ==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== > ROOTSWEB MAILING LIST HELP PAGES > What is a Mailing List? > http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help/mail1.html