Thank you, Celeste! I did find Manuel's draft card but he is listed as an "non declarant alien" and I have not found any naturalization documents, just in case. It looks he lived most of his time here in the USA in Stanislaus County and then passed in San Joaquin County in 1942.
Caroline On Friday, February 3, 2017 at 3:05:33 PM UTC-8, celeste perry wrote: > > Caroline, I am not sure this will help; however, it may. > > I could not find the place of birth of my son-in-law's great-grandfather, > Francisco Inacio de Sousa. Someone told me that, if he had been > naturalized and voted, there were voter registration records for Alameda > County in California. I found the binders that housed all the voter > registration papers up to 1920. The binders, with all the names in > alphabetical order, were in something called the "Erickson Collection" and > the voter registration office told me that the "Erickson Collection" was at > Cal State Hayward (at the time) now East Bay. > > I found the person I was researching had voted 16 (I think) times and all > of the sheets except one just said Azores. The "odd" one said Flores, > Azores. Flores does not have many villages so I was able to look at each > village and I FOUND HIM! So there may be some hidden information in the > county where he lived here in California. > > Celeste Perry [email protected] <javascript:> > > -- 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.
