The Madeira archives site has a marriage index with the bride/groom names, parish, and date. With that info you can get a microfilm from the mormon church, or ask someone on the list in case they already have the microfilm to look it up for you. The microfilm, depending on the time period, may give you parents and grandparent's names. Sometimes siblings are down as the witnesses. Once you know when they were married you can then get another microfilm with baptisms and you can try to find their children. This is how we research. There are baptism indexes online for Porto Santo only, and again you still need to look at the microfilm for more information. The site is just a wonderful guide as it points you to a parish. With portuguese records you always have to know the parish where people were born, married, or died, or you are pretty much stuck. Luis Beal BOBCAMSCPW@aol.com wrote: Ok everyone I was reading how some of you are doing this. But as I stated before I don't read Portuguese. I got into the archives web site but I still have questions and I am confused. I found my great-grandparents, and the year. But what if I want to find there parents and brothers or sister and so on. Would I go back and do what. This is where I get lost. I am sorry this is what make me fed up because it does not give me other information like there age and so on. Can I get some help or someone explain it to me so I can understand? Thanks Bob Camacho Researching the islands of Terceira for da Costa, and Evangelho, Graciousa for Reis, and Madeira for Camacho ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx "Not to know what happened before we were born is to remain perpetually a child. For what is the worth of a human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors." Cicero, Roman orator __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Bob - you can also order the certificates directly from the archive. That's how I've done all of my research. I don't live close to a Family Research Centre and I figured by the time I've drive an hour to order the films, pay for them, then drive back and out again to do the research, which may or may not be fruitful, I may as well spend the money on the certificates. I use the website to identify the individual and the record number and then send them an email ordering the certificates. I do this in English. The person I used to deal with I think has left - he was very quick in his reply. They now have someone who probably comes in about once a week who writes fluent English, so there's a little bit more of a delay. They have been very helpful and often include related certificates e.g. if I request a marriage certificate, they email and ask if I want the baptism, etc. From these certificates - some are very legible and others are not, I've been able to go trace my family back to the late 1700s. Janette -----Original Message----- From: Luis Beal [mailto:luisbeal@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 6:10 PM To: PRT-MADEIRA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PRT-MADEIRA] Madeiran archives website The Madeira archives site has a marriage index with the bride/groom names, parish, and date. With that info you can get a microfilm from the mormon church, or ask someone on the list in case they already have the microfilm to look it up for you. The microfilm, depending on the time period, may give you parents and grandparent's names. Sometimes siblings are down as the witnesses. Once you know when they were married you can then get another microfilm with baptisms and you can try to find their children. This is how we research. There are baptism indexes online for Porto Santo only, and again you still need to look at the microfilm for more information. The site is just a wonderful guide as it points you to a parish. With portuguese records you always have to know the parish where people were born, married, or died, or you are pretty much stuck. Luis Beal BOBCAMSCPW@aol.com wrote: Ok everyone I was reading how some of you are doing this. But as I stated before I don't read Portuguese. I got into the archives web site but I still have questions and I am confused. I found my great-grandparents, and the year. But what if I want to find there parents and brothers or sister and so on. Would I go back and do what. This is where I get lost. I am sorry this is what make me fed up because it does not give me other information like there age and so on. Can I get some help or someone explain it to me so I can understand? Thanks Bob Camacho Researching the islands of Terceira for da Costa, and Evangelho, Graciousa for Reis, and Madeira for Camacho ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx "Not to know what happened before we were born is to remain perpetually a child. For what is the worth of a human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors." Cicero, Roman orator __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx