Andrew, I work backward from when they arrived in US to 3 months back and had pretty good luck with that. Let me know if I can help you at my email addy.
"E" Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 9, 2017, at 7:08 PM, Andrew Rapoza <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would appreciate if insight could be given as to how long before ship > departure a person needed to get their passport? I long ago located my 2nd > ggmother and three of her children, including my 1ggmother on the manifest of > the bark Veronica. The ship left Horta, Fayal, on 21 September 1885 and > landed in New Bedford, MA, on 10 October 1885. I thought I would easily find > their passport registration data on the CCA website, but no; even though many > other passengers from that voyage were in the Fayal passport records, not my > ancestral family. Anyone have an idea what the requirements were? You > apparently could register at any one of the Azores' three big ports (Horta, > Angra, Ponta Delgada) and I haven't figured out if there were timing > requirements, but I would guess from what I've seen that it can be right up > to the time of departure. I'm just hoping that understanding the requirements > will give me a better chance of finding my ancestors' passport application > records - perhaps I can't find them because they were not absolutely > required?? Thanks very much. > -- > 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.
