I'm not knocking Bob De Mello, but at the time he did his passaportes to Hawaii book, he made some assumptions that he carried throughout the book. I don't think his grasp of the Portuguese language was all that good. So he may have assumed that no father listed meant that the father had died.
So unless you can find your Manuel leaving the Azores in the Azorean passaportes, I'd really question the father being deceased. They always named the father and then said deceased after his name. 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
