They did make mistakes on the ship manifests. For example, my grandparents moved from mainland Portugal to Brazil in the early 1900's where my father was born. They moved back to Portugal two or three years later. When my father emigrated to the US from Lisbon he was listed on the ship's manifest as: skin color, black; eye color, brown; hair color, black. My father was white/fair skinned, blue eyed and had reddish brown hair!! I called the National Archives to report the error but they said nothing could be done.
Mary Ann On Mar 7, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Pat West wrote: > Cheri, > That's why I was so confused. perhaps it was an error on the > ships manifest when they listed his nationality. It is strange they > have the nationality as Great Britain, but country of origin as > Portugal. > Thanks, > Pat > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
