Louie's right, find all the US documents you can first. You may already have seen these, but Eva's marriage:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K82T-T77 has her father as "Manuel E. Gomes". Assuming that Eva's family was also located in Modesto, and that her father died there or thereabouts, then there are at least two possible leads for his death dates. Despite the discrepancy in the dates, I suspect these are for the same man : https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPVR-YB3 https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKT-YZMZ <- this record includes a birth date https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=57631500 You can also search the newspapers for obits which may have more info. hope this is helpful, :) Linda On Monday, January 30, 2017 at 8:49:02 PM UTC-8, Caroline Gomes wrote: > > Hi all! > > I have not posted in a few years but have decided to dust off the family > history research and continue on. > > I am looking to follow the paternal line of my father-in-law, Frank Gomes, > who was born on March 1, 1911 in Watsonville, CA and died on October 22, > 1989 in Concord, CA. His parents were Manuel Gomes (born around 1877 (?) > - somewhere in the Azores) and Mary A. Brown. Frank's siblings are Eva > Gomes, Louise Gomes, Florence Gomes, Manuel Gomes and Raymond Gomes. Frank > has three children: JoAnn Gomes Taylor, Larry Gomes and Gary Gomes. > > We have been going thru Ancestry.com and see some of the various Census > records from the Central Valley here in CA but all that we see listed as a > birthplace for Manuel is Portugal with nothing specific. We are trying to > figure out where Manuel's paternal line leads to in the Azores. > > Help! :) > > Caroline Gomes > Northern California > > -- 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.
