My aunt did not work but collected under her Husbands name. I found her by 
using his SS number. 

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> On Nov 14, 2019, at 2:19 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> She didn't have to work. If she applied for her husband's she may have a 
> SSA-9638. Scroll down to section 3 here:
> http://www.worldgenweb.org/azrwgw/research-aids-a---l/finding-your-portuguese/finding-your-portuguese-6.html#previous-photo
> 
> It's almost a $30 gamble though. But if it has that one piece of information 
> you are after, it is worth it.
> 
> You can also try the Social Security Application and Claims Index. That's a 
> newer database (been out about a couple of years) and it comes closer in time 
> than the SSDI. It's on Ancestry. If you don't have a subscription, your local 
> library probably has it.
> 
> Cheri
> Cheri Mello
> Listowner, Azores-Gen
> Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, 
> Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 2:14 PM Antoinette Lima <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> Thank you Cheri, 
>> 
>> I was wondering about that, she may not have even applied for one, she as 
>> far as I know she never worked outside of the house.
>> 
>>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 2:04 PM Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Antoinette,
>>> 
>>> I think that the only people that appear in the Social Security Death Index 
>>> are the ones who had the benefit paid out on them. If no benefit was 
>>> collected, then they don't appear. That's what I seem to remember.
>>> 
>>> Cheri
>>> Cheri Mello
>>> Listowner, Azores-Gen
>>> Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, 
>>> Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 2:02 PM Antoinette Lima <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Thank you Bill,
>>>> 
>>>> yes I agree with you, I need to get a copy of Virginia's death 
>>>> certificate. I have never been able to find her in the Social Security 
>>>> death index, the date I had assumed was her birth date was 1901 from her 
>>>> gravestone, but according to Joao's naturalization records (thank you Joe 
>>>> M.), all of her immigration records and my father's birth records shows 
>>>> that she was born in 1893..and stayed that way on the census records till 
>>>> 1940 when she had gotten a few years "younger", the grave also shows 
>>>> 9/6/1951 as her death date, but when I contacted the cemetery they said 
>>>> their records shows it as 1952.  
>>>> 
>>>> I'm thinking the children did this from memory which sometimes is not a 
>>>> good thing, unfortunately I have no one left to contact with first hand 
>>>> information.
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> Again thank for all your help
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 10:39 PM Bill Seidler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Just to correct my post.  It is the Social Security Application and 
>>>>> Claims Index that has two entries for her as described in my post.  She 
>>>>> is not listed in the Social Security Death Index that I can find.  This 
>>>>> seems very odd to me.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Bill
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 10:23:49 PM UTC-8, Bill Seidler wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Toni, glad I could help.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Dates of birth recorded in US records often differ from home country 
>>>>>> records because they are often given by people who don't know the actual 
>>>>>> birth date.  If you search this group's archive you might find some very 
>>>>>> good posts from Cheri Mello about reliability of primary source records 
>>>>>> (such as a birth date at the time birth) compared to secondary source 
>>>>>> records (such as a birth date at the time of death).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Debbie's explanation of devotional names is very thorough. Confusing 
>>>>>> these names with a mother's surname in US records is not uncommon.  It 
>>>>>> happened on my grandfather's death certificate (mother's maiden name 
>>>>>> listed as "de Jesus" or "Dejesus".  In further research you may also 
>>>>>> find that women sometimes change their devotional names.  I have an 
>>>>>> ancestor that was Rosa dos Anjos on her first marriage but Rosa da 
>>>>>> Conceição on her second marriage.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The only death date I see for Virginia is from the California Death 
>>>>>> Index, 6 Sep 1951.  She has two listing in the Social Security Death 
>>>>>> index; one with Machado spelled correctly and the other spelled Virginia 
>>>>>> MacHadeo Lima, with a different SSN.  Both are missing the death date 
>>>>>> and both have the same birth date (16 Sep 1897) and both have the same 
>>>>>> parents' names. I would contact Santa Clara county to get her death 
>>>>>> certificate.  It cost me $20 to get my grandfather's from Orange County. 
>>>>>>  The death certificate, if like my grandfather's will give funeral home 
>>>>>> and burial information.  The death certificate should give a certain 
>>>>>> date of death.  Maybe there was a delay in her burial or her grave was 
>>>>>> relocated in 1952.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I hope this is helpful.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Bill Seidler
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 7:02:41 PM UTC-8, Jesse Mendonca 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> This naming of the women issue is why it is so helpful to have the 
>>>>>>> baptismal and marriage records.   Women generally had their first name 
>>>>>>> and a religious name, but didn’t use their father’s surname.  So Thera 
>>>>>>> are tons of Anna de Jesus or Maria da Conceçao names out there. 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Here is a list from Wikipedia of names added to Maria:
>>>>>>> Religious predicates (often honouring one of the Virgin Mary's 
>>>>>>> denominations):
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Catholic devotion festivities: Maria da Conceição (referring to Our 
>>>>>>> Lady of Conception), Maria das Dores (Our Lady of Sorrows), Maria da 
>>>>>>> Assunção (Assumption of Mary), Maria da Natividade (Nativity of Mary).
>>>>>>> A place of a Marian apparition: Maria de Fátima(Fátima), Maria de 
>>>>>>> Lurdes (Lourdes), Maria de la Salete (La Salette), Maria Aparecida 
>>>>>>> (common in Brazil, after Aparecida), Maria Nazaré(Nazareth).
>>>>>>> A virtue or a nature element (many of which have lost religious 
>>>>>>> associations nowadays): Maria do Céu (Heaven or Sky), Maria da 
>>>>>>> Luz(Light), Maria do Mar (Sea), Maria da Graça(Grace).
>>>>>>> The name of a saint: Maria de São José (after Saint Joseph).
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I found my Anna de Jesus on her marriage record listing her fathers 
>>>>>>> surname, Aguiar.    
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Debbie
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Researching:
>>>>>>> 1. LUIZ surname— including Luiz de SOUZA, PIMENTEL, Antonio CABRAL, and 
>>>>>>> PEREIRA—on Sao Miguel (Sao Roque, Ponta Delgada) and North Kohala, 
>>>>>>> Hawaii, Hawaii
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 2. MENDONCA and AGUIAR on Madeira (Santana, but perhaps other places); 
>>>>>>> Sao Paulo, Brazil; Hawi. Hawaii, Hawaii; Oakland and San Leandro, 
>>>>>>> California
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 6:22 PM Antoinette Lima <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Thank you again Bill, Yes the birth and death dates are very wrong but 
>>>>>>>> according to the Cemetery where she is buried the says date should 
>>>>>>>> have been 1952, so they also have noted that difference too.  
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I do have a question that perhaps you have the answer to. Virginia, on 
>>>>>>>> her immigration papers and my father's birth certificate she lists her 
>>>>>>>> last name as Conceicao and according to other documents including her 
>>>>>>>> birth certificate it is Machado..is there a reason for that?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Very confusing.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 4:57 PM Bill Seidler <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Thank you Joe, I guess I didn't go back far enough.  Parents names 
>>>>>>>>>> on this baptism match the parents name on her 1951 California Death 
>>>>>>>>>> Index listing (though he date of birth on the death index is way 
>>>>>>>>>> off, as often seems to be the case)
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Here is link to the record Joe provided: 
>>>>>>>>>> http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/TER-AH-RIBEIRINHA-B-1890-1899/TER-AH-RIBEIRINHA-B-1890-1899_item1/P151.html
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Bill Seidler
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> On Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 9:30:39 AM UTC-7, joe m wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Here is Virgina's birth in Ribeirinha
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 6:36 AM Bill Seidler <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hello Toni and welcome to the group. I took a quick look and found 
>>>>>>>>>>>> some things that might help get you started.
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> I believe this is your grand parents passport log entries when 
>>>>>>>>>>>> they left Terceira
>>>>>>>>>>>> http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/PASSAPORTES-TER-1916-1920/PASSAPORTES-TER-1916-1920_item1/P127.html
>>>>>>>>>>>>  (#589 and #590 on right side)
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> #589 confirms that this João Barcelos Lima is from São Mateus and 
>>>>>>>>>>>> I was able to find his baptism:
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> http://culturacores.azores.gov.pt/biblioteca_digital/TER-AH-SAOMATEUSCALHETA-B-1890-1899/TER-AH-SAOMATEUSCALHETA-B-1890-1899_item1/P122.html
>>>>>>>>>>>>  (#36 bottom right continuing on next page)
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Passport #590 says his wife Virginia Conceição de Lima is from 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Ribeirinha.  Unfortunately after a quick scan I did not find a 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Virginia baptized in Ribeirinha around that time frame (that 
>>>>>>>>>>>> doesn't mean it is not there; I could have missed it)
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> This couple, along with their first child Maria, arrived in 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Providence aboard the SS Roma on 1 Feb 1920 to join his father 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Joao Lima at 77 Davis Street in New Bedford and last lived in São 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Mateus where their contact was his mother Maria do Amparo. They 
>>>>>>>>>>>> had a few more kids in New Bedford and by the 1940 census were 
>>>>>>>>>>>> living in Santa Clara, California.  If you have Ancestry.com or 
>>>>>>>>>>>> can visit a library to access it there is much more information on 
>>>>>>>>>>>> this couple.  
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Bill Seidler
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Friday, November 1, 2019 at 8:08:41 PM UTC-7, Toni Lima wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I am researching my Grand parents Joao (John) Barcelos Lima and 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> his wife Virginia Conceicao. They immigrated from the island of 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Terceira to the United States in 1920 settled in New Bedford and 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> moved to Santa Clara, California some time in the 1930s. I 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> believe they were from Sao Mateus but i am so new to this I am 
>>>>>>>>>>>>> not sure how to proceed. Any assistance would be wonderful.
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