Ancestry town- where roots and i meet up

[Novos]

Hi there,

I was thinking about taking a day off the camino and going to a town called Mide, which might be linked to my ancestors.

Does anyone know this town? I tried to find it on google earth and i just saw a field of crops.

Any information will be highly appreciated!

Thanks.

 

[mspath]

Hi there,

I was thinking about taking a day off the camino and going to a town called Mide, which might be linked to my ancestors.

Does anyone know this town? I tried to find it on google earth and i just saw a field of crops.

Any information will be highly appreciated!

Thanks.

One place named Mide appears to be a small hamlet roughly 20 km sw from Sarria in Galicia. You might walk there from Sarria in about 4 hours following route LU P 5713.

See a bit more info here.

 

[HeidiL]

I found the tiny village Mide in La Coruña - is that it? The word "mide" means "he/she/it measures" in Spanish, so it's a bit complicated to Google it!

From what I can see on the map, there are four or five farms, one of them with a very nice new house. There's a municipal garbage pick-up point, so the village is definitely still inhabited. The neighbouring village, O Xuncal, seems to be slightly bigger, so maybe that's the place to start your search?

It would be really cool to find out if there are still relatives of yours living there. This is the kind of thing I do for fun - I have some of my ancestors tracked back to around 1530.

Genealogical greetings from Norway!

 

[Novos]

I found the tiny village Mide in La Coruña - is that it? The word "mide" means "he/she/it measures" in Spanish, so it's a bit complicated to Google it!

From what I can see on the map, there are four or five farms, one of them with a very nice new house. There's a municipal garbage pick-up point, so the village is definitely still inhabited. The neighbouring village, O Xuncal, seems to be slightly bigger, so maybe that's the place to start your search?

It would be really cool to find out if there are still relatives of yours living there. This is the kind of thing I do for fun - I have some of my ancestors tracked back to around 1530.

Genealogical greetings from Norway!

Yeah well, i'm deeply inside my genealogical research, there's plenty more to tell when the time comes.

Could you send me a link to the municipal pick up point?

I'm still looking for more information about this village.

 

[mspath]

Here are two Spanish citations for Mide.

http://es.geoview.info/mide,1985796621n

http://es.geoview.info/mide,1839326968n

Happy research!

 

[Novos]

Yes, it looks like there are two places with the same name.

Mide, Lugo,Galicia,Spain
Mide, A coruna, Galicia,Spain

 

[Pelegrin]

There is another MIDE associated to parish OIA council VIGO.
The name Mide probably has nothing to do with English Measure. I found on Internet that the meaning is "The considered" !?. but don´t explain the origin (Germanic, Latin).

 

[Castilian]

There are four villages called Mide in Spain. All of them are in Galicia.

One of them is in the parish of Goá (municipality of Cospeito, province of Lugo) and has 23 inhabitants.

Other is in the parish of Castro de Rei de Lemos (municipality of Paradela, province of Lugo) and has 3 inhabitants.

Other is in the parish of Oia (municipality of Vigo, province of Pontevedra) and has 296 inhabitants.

And another one is in the parish of Vilarmaior (municipality of Vilarmaior province of A Coruña) and has 5 inhabitants.

Population data from 2015. Source: www.ine.es (i.e.: the web of the Spanish Statistical Office)

Which one is the one of your ancestors?

 

[t2andreo]

Please update this thread after you make your on-site investigations. I think we are all curious to see how it goes for you.

We all wish you good luck!

 

[mspath]

Castilian,

Is there an on-line Spanish gazetteer provided by CNIG?
If so could you please send me the URL?

Thank you,
Margaret Meredith

 

[jmcarp]

Good luck on your search for ancestors. It can be really exciting when you find the place they lived, and even more exciting if you actually get to visit and meet any current cousins still living there. My wife's grandparents immigrated to the US from northern Italy in the 1880's, and over the intervening years all contact was lost between the families until we were able to locate them and visit them in 2012. They still live adjacent to the 400 year-old ancestral home and attend the same church that was built in 1612. We are now Facebook friends and follow each other regularly. We hope they will visit us in the US sometime as well. Alas, we had no such luck trying to find the Irish branch of my family (Prendergast in County Mayo) when we visited there last year. Some of my fondest Camino memories are going to Mass in the small village churches and sitting among the locals whose ancestors may have built those very churches 600 or 800 years ago. I probably would not have appreciated those experiences as much as I did if it hadn't been for visiting my wife's Italian family and their village church prior to our Camino.

 

[Novos]

Thanks for the info.
Part of the story is that my ancesors were banished because of Alhambra Decree (also known as Edict of Expulsion), which happend in 1492. I know they used to live there because of my ancestors' family name, plus some other stories that have been told over the years.
I only have information about my ancestors until 1790's. I know this is a significant gap and it might sound naive, but i really hope i will be able to find some more information.

I hope to get it through municipality, but there seems to be like 4 places with the same name so..

 

[domigee]

I wish you well on your quest, Novos. It certainly adds an exciting dimension to the pilgrimage.

 

[Castilian]

Is there an on-line Spanish gazetteer provided by CNIG?

I answered her by private conversation. If anyone else is interested, let me know.

 

[Silvester]

Thanks for the info.
Part of the story is that my ancesors were banished because of Alhambra Decree (also known as Edict of Expulsion), which happend in 1492. I know they used to live there because of my ancestors' family name, plus some other stories that have been told over the years.
I only have information about my ancestors until 1790's. I know this is a significant gap and it might sound naive, but i really hope i will be able to find some more information.

I hope to get it through municipality, but there seems to be like 4 places with the same name so..

Mine were expelled too and ended up in Scotland. I had great delight in walking past the castle of Valdes y Salas in Salas (which was looming out of the mist that day) and saying "But we survived and thrived!"