David, For the Portuguese researcher, Ancestry.com will help you trace them in America with the Federal Censuses and will help you with immigration to America. Now, you are done with Ancestry as a source.
If you are looking for Internet only sources, you'll only have the CCA site left. For the freguesias/villages you are looking in though, there's nothing online. You'll have to wait a while (probably a few years) for that info to be scanned and eventually put online. You can probably find your ancestors leaving the Azores in the "Passaporte" section here: http://pg.azores.gov.pt/drac/cca/ig/ (Click Passaportes on the right, then choose Ponta Delgada, then choose your years). If you are not interested in waiting for it to come online (and what you see on the CCA site I mentioned above has been going on about 5 years, I think), you can go to your local Family History Center and order the film and research that way. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
