Pam, Are you sure of the death date? I found a ss death record for Salvadore S Simoes born 22 Jul 1926, died in Bow, NH 31 Oct 2006. He's buried in the NH State Veterans Cemetery, Boscawen, NH. FIND A GRAVE memorial #72707482 Do you have an obit?
If the birth date is correct, you can get a copy at the Fall River City Hall. It,s $15 - $20. If you are looking for Portuguese records for his parents, you need to find out what village in Sao Miguel. The records from about 1880 back are at the Dartmouth, MA, Family History Center, 400 Cross Rd. They are open Friday nights 6:30 - 9:30, and Saturday 10:00 - 2:00. The person who knows the most about the records will be there this coming Saturday. If you don't know the village, what was the exact date they arrived? The immigration record may have the village. Good luck, Judi Sent from my iPad On Jul 1, 2012, at 12:54 AM, Pam McLeod <alto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am new and found this group after some dead ends on Ancestry.com. My > husband's father was Salvador Simoes, who we believe was born in Fall River, > MA about 1926. He died in 1996 after a 30-year estrangement from his sons, > and he lived only an hour from us at the time ... very sad story. His > grandmother was Maria Bento Simoes, and his grandfather was Manuel Simoes. I > am finding some records, but nothing matches up exactly. We believe that both > may have been from Sao Miguel, and that they lived in the Fall River / New > Bedford / Cranston RI areas. Both died in Cranston. A Manuel Simoes > immigrated in 1913, listing a wife 'Maria'; and a Maria Simoes immigrated in > 1916 and there was an older man named Bento on the same ship as Maria, all > from Sao Miguel. > > Salvador served in WWII, but outside of his later years in New Hampshire, we > cannot find any record of him, linking him to the various Manual/Maria Simoes > combinations. His sisters were Irene Hurley (Cranston, RI) and Stella > Lamarre, and there may be brothers we are not aware of. > > First, I want to ask if there is a place we can visit in the New Bedford or > RI areas to get some help with Portuguese records? > > Secondly, any thoughts about why Salvador does not seem to exist in records > from 1926 until much, much later in his life? > > Thank you! > Pam > > -- > 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."
