LoneyBones Second Chance Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In

[LoneyBones]

Thanks JM. 
I'm off to the NZ Board to look for some shipping sites. Been through all the ones I have in Favourites so frustrating    links that link to more links that send you back to the first link..... I'm getting dizzy.

[Peonie]

Hi Leonie,

did you find your Inacio here?       http://sarmento.eng.uminho.pt/cgi-bin/geneweb?b=MatrizAngustias;lang=pt;m=N;v=inacio

You can click translate and you get the page in English.

Our translator list shows Erato can perhaps "muddle" through Portuguese. She also has Ennis in the tree.

Regards Peonie

[LoneyBones]

Thanks Peonie  I'll check all that out too.

It would be nice if the Genealogy Fairy could pop in sometimes and solve all our searches for us.    But then we'd have nothing to do.   

[LoneyBones]

Well, I've just about worn out my brain....have done lots of looking, found lots of interesting information...but nothing concrete about John INNIS or Joao INACIO. Except it would have been INACIO rathter than INACIA,    because Portuguese has gender biased names. And I'd really like to know how to pronounce Joao, with an accent of some sort over the "a" but I don't know how to type accents, or even IF I can type accents, on my computer.
I'll probably call in at the library tomorrow and check a few things out on Ancestry. Hopefully get some answers.

Leonie.

[Peonie]

Hi Leonie,

have a look for Portuguese language with audio.  http://www.easyportuguese.com/words.php

To type accents go to Europe Board, on top there is " type foreign characters" go to reply 18.

Good night, Peonie

[osprey]

it's a tilde like this ã and the squiggly thing under a c is a cedilla ç. On my computer I go to accessories, then system tools, then character map and there's all sorts of scripts & accents. It's probably hidden away somewhere on yours.

 

sorry - posts crossed whil I was playing with another script....

[LoneyBones]

Thanks Peonie and osprey, 
I learned french, a long time ago.... but at least that frees up ones inhibitions about accented languages. French have accents and graves and cedillas as well, and of course I knew the tilde but had forgotten about it.    I use it for decoration..... ~0~      But I'll look into accessories because I don't know how to use it as super script.
Amazing what you learn on RootsChat.

[LoneyBones]

I now know how to pronounce Joao INACIO. 
But typing Joao with a tilde is too hard.    I found out HOW to do it but it's too complicated.
Been to the library...Ancestry is also too complicated, that's why I don't bother with it.
I didn't find a single Joao INACIO, over a period from 1800 to 1900. 
However, I did discover MORE about the Azores and whaling. I think I might have to find someone from New Bedford, USA who has Azorean ancestry. It seems most of the whalers from Faial ended up in New Bedford.
I'm off to the USA Board. 

[stonechat]

sorry duplicare post