Paul, Guessing and assumptions are a dangerous thing!
Really, though, you are not ready to start searching over there. You need to start in America. You need to start with her death (get the certificate), obituaries, naturalization/alien registration, censuses, marriage from the church book (not the certificate), etc, etc. A how to of sources can be found on the Azores Gen Web here: https://goo.gl/xYgVpZ Or you can use the needle-in-the-haystack method. Sao Miguel has about 70 freguesias to search. You have about 68 more to go. :) Seriously though, it took me 4 years and 25 documents until I found my freguesia. I've got a couple of more documents now and it's still only that one document where the freguesia is stated. That was all before computers, so now maybe it would take me a couple of months to find the freguesia. Good luck, Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- 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.
