Hi, I will be attending the Azores research conference week after next in Salt Lake City and am certainly looking forward to it.
Along those lines, I'm trying to do some preparatory work on my main Azorean research target. My great grandfather John Joseph Sylvia was reportedly born on Graciosa on Dec. 6, 1845. According to the U.S. Census he possibly immigrated in 1873 (according to the 1920 census) or 1884 (according to the 1910 census). He eventually settled in Yreka in northern California. He married in 1889 and died in Yreka in 1932. He is buried with his wife, Caroline Lemos, in the St. Joseph Cemetery (link: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=sylvia&GSiman=1&GScid=2158169&GRid=106395488&; ). On Ancestry I found some shipping references to a sailor John Sylvia of about the right age in the 1865-1875 timeframe so he may have been a sailor for awhile before moving to California. One good example is 1869, the vessel "Eagle" sailing from Havana to New York. I don't know how to use the CCA and other research tools but I'm sure I will learn more on the trip. So, my question for now is what are some good tools I can use to try to find something about his birth in Graciosa and/or his early life before settling in California? I have taken the atDNA test through Ancestry and have posted my DNA record up on GEDMatch (Kit # A979857). Thanks! Ken Waters -- Amateur Genealogist in Mesa, AZ Twitter: @FamilyTreeAZ Interests: DNA, Azores, San Francisco, early colonial America Surnames: Waters, Craddock, Spencer, Sylvia, Lemos, Cummings, Spivey, Wood, Berkley, Wheeler, and so much more. -- 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
