Mike, What are the names of those you are looking for.I found my great, great-grandparents on passenger lists on Ancestry.com a fwe times. Apparently they went back & forth a few times. Maybe someone on the sight with Ancestry.com can look them up for you. I'd be happy to look them up when I go to the Family History Center tomorrow. They have Ancestry.com free there. Sherry
-----Original Message----- From: Frederick Souza <[email protected]> To: azores <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Jun 19, 2012 12:48 pm Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] family history center Mike, this is just a gut feeling, but given the date and the location, I would reasonably assume they came first to Dartmouth/New Bedford. The influx of Portuguese immigrants to New Bedford and Fall River was amazing at the time period. Most came in through the port of Boston rather than New York, which may help. The California towns at that point were pretty undeveloped and if you were a female, there probably wasn't much there, whereas, gold, and other employment made it more lucrative for males (and the fishing was also a potential). -- 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."
