You are correct, John, the person I was researching was Frank Enos Sousa here in Oakland, CA. He owned a plumbing business and it was not until I began to look at his name as being Americanized did I find him. Because the 1890 census was destroyed I could not trace him that way. I realized that he had a daughter who was a Portuguese translator or the court that I THOUGHT that maybe he had been naturalized. It took a lot of looking through hard copy records in Oakland (this was in the 1990's) to find a possible lead to him. Celeste Perry [email protected]
-------------------------------------------- On Sat, 2/4/17, John Vasconcelos <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Frank Gomes and Manuel Gomes To: "azores" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, February 4, 2017, 1:40 AM Caroline and Celeste, Celeste's last post just hit me like a ton of bricks *************** Francisco INACIO da Sousa ****************** INACIO in Portuguese records often becomes ENOS when it gets to the US. I don't think I've ever seen ENOS in a Portuguese record. I suppose it could happen in a case when an Inacio gets changed to Enos when a person first immigrates to the US but if that person or a descendant goes back to Portugal, it DOES NOT get changed back to Inacio! Try Looking for a Manual INACIO Gome when you search Portuguese records. John Vasconcelos On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 3:03 PM, 'celeste perry' via Azores Genealogy <[email protected]> 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] ------------------------------ -------------- On Thu, 2/2/17, 'Caroline Gomes' via Azores Genealogy <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Frank Gomes and Manuel Gomes To: "Azores Genealogy" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, February 2, 2017, 6:54 PM An update to my search! I think we have found Frank's father, Manuel Gomes from a draft card, a death certificate online and thru the census: Manuel Enos GomesBorn Sept 4, 1875Died April 30, 1042 (Stockton, California) Immigrated here: 1906 There is still no mention of an actual island of where he is from. All of the documents either indicate Azores or just Portugal. I have tried going thru some passenger lists online but it seems so overwhelming....lol. We have ordered Frank's birth certificate but I have a feeling that either Azores or Portugal will be listed as to where his father is from. So, what do I do next? :) Thanks! Caroline -- 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 azores+unsubscribe@ googlegroups.com. 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 azores+unsubscribe@ googlegroups.com. 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. -- 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.
