"very important date and place of Naturalization . Since it was San Francisco County Court in 1876, Nov 2nd, the original may be lost in the 1906 earthquake and fire." In researching Frank Enos Sousa (Francisco Inacio da Sousa) who resided in Oakland, CA, I was unable to obtain a naturalization record for him. I was told the only naturalizations that occurred the San Francisco, CA area before 1906 were records that the person had returned to the naturalization office after the earchquake. (like a delayed recording of the record) This looked like a dead end to me.
In addition to the records destroyed in the earthquake, the 1880 federal census had been "destroyed" and there was no records from that census for the SF bay area. I heard that there were voter registration records for 1890. The research I did uncovered the voter registration records for Frank Enos Sousa. Because there were several pages of his having registered to vote, I guess a person had to re-register each time he voted. On ONE of those original sheets I found that Frank had written the Island of Flores in the Azores as his place of birth. All the other sheets said either Azores or Portugal as his birth place. The voter registration records prior to 1920 were in something called the "Erickson Collection." At the time I found them and looked in the neatly filed binders, in alphabetical order, they were kept at the University of California Hayward (Now University of California East Bay) that is just a stone's throw from where I live! I encourage you to keep digging and asking questions. Those of you who know me are familiar with my asking questions until I get answers that help me with the research I am doing. Celeste Celeste Perry ccgran...@yahoo.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." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
