Thank you, Cheri, that is helpful. It's fortunate that the Ponta Delgada records are the ones on-line.
I'll wait to see if anyone can translate the notation in that last column for the boys between 15 and 18. On Saturday, April 12, 2014 9:31:13 PM UTC-7, Cheri Mello wrote: > The 3 ports for the Azores are Ponta Delgada on Sao Miguel island, Angra > on Terceira island, and Horta on Faial island. I don't know if it was > called a passaporte office, but people did register at the port. > Generally, they left from the port closest to home. NOTE: I said > generally. Someone from Corvo (closest port would be Horta) could go all > the way over to Ponta Delgada (the furthest port) to emigrate out of the > Azores. Since you are looking for people from Santa Maria island, the > nearest port would be Ponta Delgada on Sao Miguel island so I'd start there. > > You know more about the military conscription than I do. > > 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.
