----- Original Message ----- From: "Chocolynn" <chocol...@comcast.net> To: "Azores Genealogy" <Azores@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:18 PM Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] New-Free-Online Archival Resource: Provincetown Advocate newspaper, 1918 et.al.
Must share this New-Free-Online Genealogy Resource opportunity to break down brick walls in immigrant Azorean families who may have lived in, or had business in Provincetown, MA's Portuguese immigrant fishing industry: Content Quoted from: Provincetown Public Library - Advocate Live! Collections at: http://www.ptownlib.com Now an on-going project to re-microfilm, digitize and index the Provincetown Library's issues of the Provincetown Advocate newspaper and make them available on the Internet at: http://advocate.provincetown-ma.gov Scope: The years 1918, 1931-1934 and 1936-1967 are currently available. Soon, all available issues published bef. 1918 will be loaded. *** Lynn Pritchett (chocol...@comcast.net) Personal Note: This new free service has proved invaluable for our family already! We had folklore that an Azorean fisherman relative based in Provincetown was lost at sea off Florida coast, but we could find no such document proving such a death of a male Provincetown relative... Until I read the JANUARY 24, 1918 issue of the Provincetown Advocate: "Manuel Caton and crew were lost at sea while fishing for snapper off the Florida coast. He commanded and co-owned the vessels SEA FOX, ADDISON CENTER, CARRIE PHILLIPS, & PHILOMENA MANTA. He is survived by his wife Ida, two sons and two daughters...." Now the 'family story' is more than just a 'story' but a real event! I suspected all along that this gr gr grandfather, CAPT. MANUEL CATON, (aka: CAETANO) was indeed the relative lost at sea, but until the archive was released in this free online access project, how to prove it?! (Genealogists never die - We just lose our census - Ha ha ha) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
