California began their vital record registration of births and deaths around the early 1900s. It took a few years for everyone to be in compliance (all doctors, midwives, etc reporting the birth and deaths). So early 19teens records are a crap shoot. Maybe you will get lucky or not.
A marriage announcement may or may not appear in the paper. And it may or may not appear in an English language paper. Or Portuguese for that matter. I have no idea which newspapers you searched. UMass Dartmouth has the Portuguese-American Digital Newspaper Collections for the states of Massachusetts, California, and Hawaii only: https://goo.gl/QGbSe0 (NOTE: There are some quirky differences with Firefox vs Chrome, etc) And if you found the other guy's WWI Draft and he's an alien, you trace him through the 1940 census and he's an alien, his death certificate says he's an alien, then get his Alien Registration from the USCIS. It's in the "how to" under "Immigrant Sources:" https://goo.gl/vOijK0 Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 12:37 AM, 'Caroline Gomes' via Azores Genealogy < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Cheri, > > Thank you for the link. I am on the hunt for any and all USA records for > sure. > > I already received a response from Santa Cruz County for Frank's birth > certificate (allegedly born in Watsonville) and they are not able to find > it. > > I did find a small notice of a Superior Court Transactions from 1910 in a > Santa Cruz, CA newspaper, where it shows that Manuel's MIL has given the > court an affidavit of consent to marriage for Manuel Enos Gomes and Mary A > Brown to be married (she was under 18 and he was older). But no > announcement of the actually wedding. I will be calling the Superior Court > on Monday to see what we have to do to see that document. Frank was born > the next year in 1911. > > Caroline > > > > On Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 9:20:09 PM UTC-8, Cheri Mello wrote: > >> Get every single record you can find in America. I looked at 25 different >> things before I found my freguesia. >> Here's a list of things you can try: https://goo.gl/vOijK0 >> 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. > -- 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.
