Hi Mary, Once you get into the Portuguese records you will see the Portuguese spellings, so you might want to keep these handy. Manoel = Manuel Ingnatio = Inacio Fortado = Furtado Mary = Maria Anton = Antonio Fayal = Faial Joseph = Jose
You will have to pick on the person who left the best paper trail in America. That's usually the person who went through naturalization. If not, you can always get the Alien Registration papers if the person lived in 1940. You may have to trace some or all of the siblings, looking for the village/freguesia that they came from in Faial. You will have to look in many places and order many documents (I found mine on the 25th try). For information on how to trace your ancestors, beginning in America, go here: http://homepage.mac.com/kmacardoza/Genealogy/HowTo.html -- Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, R. das Tainhas, Achada --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
