The census can be notoriously unreliable. Just imagine white Anglo cenus takers knocking on doors of 3-decker cold water flats in Fall River in 1910 or 1920 and being greeted by a non-English speaking forty-ish woman with 6 kids hanging around her skirts, using her 8 year old to translate. The cenus takers filled in the blanks as best they could. All of this explains why 10 years later the information on the same family was sometimes very fifferent.
John Miranda Raposo ________________________________ From: AC <csho...@optonline.net> To: azores@googlegroups.com Sent: Thu, January 13, 2011 10:24:19 PM Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Cape Verde vs. Azores I've found a few documents re: my mother's family and although the 1920 census says St. Michael, Portugal, my grandmother's death certificate says her parents were from the "Cape Verde Islands"... yes I know information is often suspect, I've seen incorrect information on legal documents many times, the respondent us usually doing the best they can. I was just wondering how often the two are interchanged... Is it a situation where Cape Verdeans may have gone to the Azores THEN on to other places? This is very common in the Carribean... someone might be born in Guyana but lived in and emigrated to the US from Trinidad or Tobago or Barbados I haven't had a chance to look for the naturalizations yet, I'm hopeful they'll yield better info. Alexis _______________________________________ No infections found in this outgoing message Scanned by iolo System Shield® http://www.iolo.com -- 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." -- 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."
