Hello again, I actually caught a break the other day and found the date that my grandmother-in-law's family (the Costa's) came to the US. I used this information to more specifically search the CCA site as I was advised by Cheri (thank you). The beautiful thing is that the CCA site confirmed the correct spelling of the names Leopoldina, Idalina and their parents Maria dos Santos and Manuel Joaquim da Costa all born in Ribeirinha, Ribeira Grande. I have found their parents names as well which was very cool.
My question now is where to go from here. Do I need to write (via snail mail) to the parish for birth and marriage certificates? Also what information do I need to do that? I only have the year of birth on them, so I'm not sure I'll be able to get anything with just that. I have had no luck finding Joao de Sousa Domingos on the CCA site. Unfortunately the list I found the date on for the Costa's didn't go far enough back to cover his immigration to the US. I did have a date from his Emergency passport application, but can't find anything on the CCA site around that date. Any ideas? Thanks, Yvonne -- 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."
