Hi Celeste, I will check some of these avenues out as soon as I get home from Mexico.
Thanks again, Bernie From: azores@googlegroups.com [mailto:azo...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of celeste perry Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 8:40 AM To: azores@googlegroups.com Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] voter registration & local directories Hi Bernie, You have a lot of information that can lead you to answers for your questions. I have a couple of ideas that may be of help to you. Since some of your ancestors were naturalized, you may be able to find the original voter registration forms that they filed when they registered to vote. Here is how it worked for me in Alameda County. I checked with the voter registration office (I was trying to learn the name of the pristinct in which they lived) and while I was there I was told that the original voter forms (all nicely bound and in alphabetical (by last name) order, were at Cal State Univ. in Hayward. I found that the person for whom I was searching was naturalized in San Francisco and born in Flores, Azores. What a find. The other idea is I attended a workshop in Santa Cruz sponsored by the Santa Cruz genealogy society. The members of that organization were very helpful and may be able to lead you to available sources to help you find your ancestors that lived in Santa Cruz County. Some states and counties did census counts inbetween the 10 year federal census. There is also the possibility that your ancestor may have be recorded in a city directory. If they lived in an outlying area, they were sometimes listed in the closest city. One example of this is that I found people who lived in Decoto (not Union city) in the Hayward City directory. You can usually find copies of these old directories in the library for the city you are searching. Sometimes, a larger nearby city has copies of some of the surrounding smaller cities. One exception I found is the copies were all at the mortuary that had advertised in the directory and they had been stored in the back of a closet. I was lucky to find that the person to whom I spoke knew about them and let me search all of them. Celeste Perry ccgran...@yahoo.com -- 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." -- 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."
