I'm still hunting down Joaquim Benedicto. Hopefully I've found, and translated, his marriage record and birth records of both himself and his wife. So far I have lots of great new information and two more generations on both sides.
However, that's if this Joaquim is my Joaquim. I "know" (that's a loaded word huh) from the US 1910 census that he migrated to the US in about 1885, when he was about 10 years old.The very first record of him I can find in the US is his 1906 arrival on the SS Brooklyn with his new wife. The ship manifest does say that he's a US citizen. He does not seem to appear in the 1990 or 1890 (fragment) census records. I can find no record of his parents in the US either. So my next search is for his passport in about 1885. I'm starting with the Angra do Heroísmo passports as he's from Terceirca. If I have no luck there I'll move on to the other ports. My questions are 1) A bit of a subjective one I suppose ... Did children ever travel to the US at that time without their parents? I would think it was uncommon. 2) re Reading the records. I see the printed headings at the top of each page and understand them mostly. I don't know what the last column on each page says. It's something like "no do masso em que esta archivado o processo" Here's an example. http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/PASSAPORTES-TER-1874-1877/PASSAPORTES-TER-1874-1877_item1/P11.html I don't know if this is going to be meaningful for me. 3) re Reading the records. As a child will he most likely have his own listing or should I be looking for his name in the listing of an adult? Many thanks for all your help. Samantha -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
