Mel, re: passenger manifest - immigrants didn't always know where they
would be settling, so they often gave their destination as the city where a
relative, friend, or employer was located. Just like when they agreed to
work in HI - the contract was usually for only three years then they were
I think I left out a detail here. Antonio Miguel de Braga and Maria da
Gloria Rapoza were natives of Maia, Ribeira Grande. Sorry for that
omission. I can track her mother's de Braga line easily. It's Antonio's
where I am lost. Giving his father only an M. for a first name in the
records
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