Repost for Tiffany Borges, borgeskids at gmail.com I read once in a while, enjoy the vast kindness & knowledge shared in this group, and am delving back into the search for my husband's grandparents' lineage. I hit a dead end about one year ago, and admittedly don't know what I'm doing, beyond subscribing to the Ancestry.com (which I can't afford on this day...) and bashing around 411 calling various churches.
The names are Jose Borges and Ana Toste, both arriving through Boston in 1920 (I only had the passport for Grandma, not Grandpa) and their records seem to narrow in on Gustine, Merced, CA. The tricky part is that my husband's uncle, now the only remaining son alive, doesn't know for certain that his parents married in California. I hear alternating stories that they may have met in Massachusetts or Connecticut. But the prevailing tale seems to be that both met as teenagers, in CA, and were from Terceira. Jose Borges da Luz DOB 13 June 1905 the only public record I've found for Ana is her brother Antonio's (DOB 11/25/1894) WWII draft card ... listing him in Merced. (is that a town or a county?) I found them listed as married (and as "Joe & Annie", lol) in the 1930 Census, Los Angeles, with a 2 year old daughter. Do I call parishes willy-nilly asking about marriage records around 1925? I just had such poor luck with that, previously, and would treasure any guidance you could give me. We're making an album for said Uncle, in hard copy, and I feel like it's incomplete without the marriage record for his parents. Thank you, Tiffany in Alaska -- For 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." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
