Hi Anni, If you have the date and ship name they left and arrived inBoston on, you should be able to find their passport info, or the ships manifest. This will tell their freguesia.Also, from Ancestry, look at census records 1920, 30, 40 to see if they became citizens or not. Then look for naturalization records. This will have much info as to birth record and family info . It will indicate Y yes N no or A applied on the census . Then check National Archives for a copy of the application.
My Cabral line is deRego , Ribeiro Grande No Benevides that I know of Bill Cabral -----Original Message----- From: Annie <[email protected]> To: azores <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, May 4, 2019 5:36 pm Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Looking for grandparents birthplace, Azores; Traveling to Sao Miguel this week HiThank you!I only know that they left Sao Miguel in 1903 and, I blieve, were from Sao Miguel, but I don’t know what village. I was hoping that there might be some records in Sao Miguel of my grandmother’s parents. I hardly see any village names on records in ancestry.com. i was hoping there might be additional population records in Sao Miguel. :-( ☹️ Ill keep digging, but no village names in any recods so far.. of rither my grandparents or even their parents.thank you!Annie Sent from my iPhone On May 4, 2019, at 4:56 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Annie, The Azores are comprised of 9 islands. You need to narrow down the island first, then find the village. Everything there is organized by the freguesia (village). The Azorean government digitized their records. Many freguesias go to the year 1911 and a few only go to 1905. The records can be accessed through Tombo.pt. Click the British flag if you need to navigate in English. None of this will be useful unless you have a freguesia. It would be like a European telling you there ancestor was born in the United States. There's no comprehensive index for that. Most of America is organized on the state level with New England organized on the town level. Good luck, Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 1:51 PM <[email protected]> wrote: Hello:My grandmother's name is Margarida Benevides Cabral. I think her parents were Joao Benevides Cabral and his wife Marie F. Benevides Cabral.They came to Boston in 1903 onn the SS Commonwealth and headed to Fall River, MA. My grandmother was born in August 1898 or 1899. I am traveling soon to Ponta Del Gada . Is there a place that I should look i.e. City Hall or elsewhere , that might have more information than what I can currently get on Ancestry. com? I'm trying to find her birth place. Thank you.Annie-- 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. -- 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.
