RE: [AZORES-Genealogy] Brokers/Jobers, how immigrants found work

2011-01-25 Thread Sam Koester
Mary, Thank you for this information. My grandfather was a relatively small man, from the information I have found, and the idea of him working in a mine has always been a curious one to me. I will have to lookup quicksilver mining and learn what it entails. Thanks again, Sam in Maz

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Travel from Azores to West Coast or West Coast to Azor...

2011-01-25 Thread Cakemom102
My aunt always told the story of how the rest of my grandfather's family, probably in the 1880's, and that they came around the Horn. I have never found where they disembarked, but I am thinking it had to be around San Francisco, since my grandfather was in Sacramento. Mary Ann M. In