I am excited to find this google group and am enjoying all the posts. I have felt inspired to research my husband's Azorean history for the last 10 years and haven't done much. I am amazed how little his father and aunt know (who are now in their late 80's). They don't even know what their grandparents first names were! We do know that Theodore (Theotonio) Martins (my father in laws father) was born in San Bartolomeu, Terceira around 1886 and died 1935 in Patterson, CA and his wife Madeline Rocha was born in 1896 in Porto Judeo, Terceira and died in 1957 in Santa Clara, CA. I have gone to Family History Centers and ordered microfilm that my friend who is Portuguese could not even begin to make out (the scribble) Anyone have advice on where to start? Is there a good way to search passengers on ships that came over?...I can guess they came in the 1920's but no idea how they traveled to California.
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