Lynn, I do have ancestry, which is bringing up nothing so far for 1848 - 1870 - will keep looking though.
On May 9, 11:19 am, Chocolynn <chocol...@comcast.net> wrote: > In the 1918 flu epidemic, the mother instead of father died: Maria (de > Luz) Caton/Caetano left behind her husband, William "Willie" Caton/ > Caetano but the result was similar. Willie could not raise their 6 > children alone because his life was that of the Provincetown > fisherman. Children were separated to aunts and even cousin-in-laws. > The youngest boy was left at St. Mary's Infant Asylum in New Bedford, > and the oldest girl was sent to Daily Industrial School in New Bedford > as soon as she was of age. > > It was a slow process finding each child. In the end, the U.S. Census > records uncovered where each child was taken - I searched through > census' as if I'd thrown a pebble in a pond eliminating each town > surrounding the one they had lived in as a family in 1920 and 1930. > The process is quicker if you have access to ancestry.com. If you > don't subscribe at home, check with your local public library and LDS > family history library, as their subscription allows free access to > the website during their regular business hours > > I wish you well in your adventure. > Lynn > > Lynn Pritchett > Researching Silva, Bragg, Caton/Caetano, de Luz, Cabral, Alves, > Rodrigues -- 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."
