Laura, You need to have stuff in Portuguese, not Spanish. So in your genealogy program, type Sao Miguel or São Miguel. People trying to do a search on Portuguese research from the island of Sao Miguel won't be typing in Spanish.
You need the freguesia over there on Sao Miguel. There are about 70 freguesias/villages on Sao Miguel alone. You can't find their marriages or baptisms until you find their freguesia. You need to start with their deaths and everything that they did in CA and HI tracing your way back in time. Where to begin can be found on the Azores GenWeb here: http://goo.gl/WT5Ra1 IslandRoutes (Portuguese to Hawaii) is also another source: http://www.yourislandroutes.com/ There are people on this list with Bob de Mello's and Edgar Knowleton's Immigration to HI books that might be able to do a look up. Those books contain the freguesia in many cases. I'm guessing you have a typo on your ancestor's year of 1998. And with people on this list living in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Azores....well, when you say "they came here" this list of 1200 has no idea what you mean. Since we have a global audience it helps to write that they came to _______. Good luck! Hope a Portuguese Hawaiian researcher posts here soon! Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- 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.
