Caroline, if Santa Cruz Cnty doesn't have a birth certificate for Frank Gomez, try the Catholic Church in Watsonville. I think that it is St. Patrick's Church. You might have better luck finding his baptismal record which might show where his parents came from too, you never know!
Rosemarie [email protected] Researching Sao Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Faial and Pico, Azores, Isola delle Femmine, Sant' Elia, Sicily On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 1:32 PM, 'Caroline Gomes' via Azores Genealogy < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > Just an update on what I have found so far. > > > > I had been focusing my newspaper search to the Santa Cruz County and > Stanislaus County areas, using Newspapers.com, Legacy.com and Archives.com > . Thank you Cheri for the link to the Portuguese papers archives. > > > > > > Frank Gomes > > - Santa Cruz County is not able to find his birth certificate….looking > under Francis, Francisco or Frank. I was able to obtain original marriage > and death certs for him and they only list 'California' as his place of > birth. Both of those documents have him listed as Frank Gomes. Everyone in > the family says that he was born in Watsonville. So I will try Monterey > County and even Stanislaus County, where his siblings were born. > > > > Manuel Enos Gomes > > We are still looking for an exact place of birth for him. I was able to > find his death certificate. He was admitted to the Stockton State Hospital > in 1940 and died there April 30, 1942. His draft card which has his mark > (X) witnessed by someone (dated Sept 12, 1918), shows his date of birth as > Oct 4, 1873 but his death certificate shows the date of birth as Sept 4, > 1875. The informant listed on his death certificate were both Hospital > Records and his son, Frank Gomes.. So we have a difference in the date of > birth. > > He received a consent to marry in 1910 Mary A Brown of Watsonville. They > were listed on the 1920 census in Stanislaus County as the head of > household and listed coming to the USA in 1906. > > In the 1930 census of Stanislaus County, he was missing from the > household as Mary A Gomes was listed as the head of household. Manuel > reappears in the 1940 census as the head of household, living with his son, > Frank and Frank's wife, and their daughter, Joann. Then a month later, it > looks like he was admitted to Stockton State Hospital. > > > Manuel was listed as divorced on the death certificate. Mary A. Silva > Gomes did remarry in the early 1930's to a Jack Silva. I am now going to > contact Stanislaus County to see about the divorce records of Manuel and > Mary. > > > > I was able to get in touch with the California State archives about the > stay at the State Hospital. As you all may know, there is a 75 year > restriction on accessing medical records in the state archives, based on > the date of last contact. So, April 2017 ends the restriction. But they > were able to tell me that there was not any mention of a specific place of > birth. > > > > > > Whew! > > 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 [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.
