thank you everyone for the information. I now have a question about my family in Madeira. When I was doing my research I was told by someone that also was doing research in Madeira that I would need to research everyone with the middle name of Pereira because they would be related to each other. Do you know if that is true or not. I was told that the Last name of Camacho is like Smith there are so many of them that why you could tell who is related to whom was by there middle name unless one of the women got married to another Camacho with a different middle name then you would have to research that name. The main reason I ask this is that I have done some research and found that most of the surname are all the same. Using either Joao, Jose, and so on, but everyone has had the middle name of Pereira and then Camacho. Thanks Bob Camacho Researching the islands of Terceira for da Costa, and Evangelho, Graciousa for Reis, and Madeira for Camacho