Hi Colleen/Steve, The information from the passaportes are not on the date they set sail.
How soon did they register before sailing? When they felt like it. I don't know if the passaportes expired or not. Most of the ancestors seemed to register within a couple of months from sailing. Lots of factors are at play here. Where did the ancestor live and which port would they set sail from? Even that could go a couple of ways. If the port was not on their island, one family member could have gone early to register the whole family. Then again, if it was quite a ways, maybe they all showed up the day before. If I find my ancestor arriving, I go to the passaportes and start looking on the arrival date working my way back. I know it was a boat and there's no way the boat made it in one day. But I don't know when they registered and I don't want to miss them, so I start of the arrival date and work my way back until I find them. Cheri -- 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.
