Hi Kimberly, Welcome! Here's a crib sheet for the passport page you posted to help get you started. I hope this helps in your search. It [mostly] gets easier after you find the right village.
---------------------- Ano/Year: 1884 Mes/Month: September Dia/Day: 5 Passport number: 461 Nomes/Names: Anna da Gloria Estado/Status: solteira/single Professao/Profession: gov.o dom.co [I read this as "governo de sua domestico", i.e., "keeper of her own house"; this phrase is used in marriage records of this period, and means, I believe, engaged full time in household duties/chores but not employed outside the family] Edade/Age: 16 Signaes/Characteristics Altura/Height: 1,53 = 1 meter 53 cm Resto/????: Comp.?? Cabello/Hair: Cast.o = castanho/brown ?????: Cast.o = castanho/brown Olhos/Eyes: Cast.o = castanho/brown Nari??/Nose?: regular Bocca/Mouth: regular Cor??/Color??: N.al = natural??? [perhaps meaning "white"?] Destino/Destination: E U d'Am.ca = Estados Unidos d'America/ USA Quem leva en sua companhia/Who they take with them: BLANK Naturalidade/Birthplace Ilha/Island: Fayal/Faial Conselho/Council: Hurta?/Horta Freguezia/Village: Cedros/Cedros Sabe escrever/Knows how to write: nao/no Nome do Navio/Ship Name: Veronica Observacoes/Observations [Distinguishing Marks]: BLANK [the line above says the fellow has a blondish beard and a scar of some sort] ----------------------- Also, many of the ships from the Azores landed at the immigration stations at Boston, so you might have luck searching those ship lists through Ancestry.com or Steve Morse's OneStep site. Best wishes, Linda On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 2:23:53 PM UTC-7, Kimberly Reeve wrote: > > Here is the link > http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/PASSAPORTES-FAL-1876-1889/PASSAPORTES-FAL-1876-1889_item1/P162.html > >> >> -- 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.
