Hi Cheri, Well, I found a couple records pertaining to my family in the "passport" part of the website. It was hard to find as you have to click and scan each page. As you know, nothing is transcribed so you cannot do a search on some ones name....However, www.ancestry.com does have records transcribed and has provided me with their "arrival dates" so I could guesstimate a "departure date" and that helped narrow my search. I think a typical trip in those days took 3weeks.
I was very pleased to have learned the names of the next generation. The Ships manifest listed the passenger's names as well as their parents in the column just to the right. If any of your members are having a hard time, I recommend they look on www.ancestry.com first for "arrivals" then subtract three weeks and start from there (+ or -) It helped me a great deal. Ancestry.com arrivals list a contact back at home, and then a local contact in the US. The contact back at home often times would be a wife, some times a single parent. The CCA site offers the name of "Mother and Father" of every passenger which was very helpful to me. (except the maiden names of the Mother) Thanks again, David On Sep 30, 10:02 am, Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com> wrote: > David, > > For the Portuguese researcher, Ancestry.com will help you trace them in > America with the Federal Censuses and will help you with immigration to > America. Now, you are done with Ancestry as a source. > > If you are looking for Internet only sources, you'll only have the CCA site > left. For the freguesias/villages you are looking in though, there's > nothing online. You'll have to wait a while (probably a few years) for that > info to be scanned and eventually put online. You can probably find your > ancestors leaving the Azores in the "Passaporte" section > here:http://pg.azores.gov.pt/drac/cca/ig/(Click Passaportes on the right, then > choose Ponta Delgada, then choose your years). > > If you are not interested in waiting for it to come online (and what you see > on the CCA site I mentioned above has been going on about 5 years, I think), > you can go to your local Family History Center and order the film and > research that way. > > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, > Achada --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
