Mike, If being naturalized on the east coast of the US was the same as here in California, I will tell you what I found in my search for my son-in-law's great-grandfather's naturalization. I began to look in Alameda County for his naturalization since he lived in Oakland (Alameda County) and had a plumbing business in Oakland. After spending a summer going through the hard copies of the records in Alameda County, I did not find anything close to the name he used here, Frank Enos Sousa. I began to look for the voter registration records for 1890; however, found that they had been destroyed at an earlier time. When I had a lead that the voter registration records might be available, I needed the to know the township in which he lived, I went to the voter registration office and asked for the township in which his home address was listed. I was told that changed for each election. As I have written before, someone in the office led me to the "Erickson collection" and to the archive where the actual forms filled out by the voter were kept up to 1920. I found his registration forms and one of them stated that he was naturalized in San Francisco and another that he was born in Flores, Azores! To this day I do not understand why someone who lived in Oakland, before the Bay Bridge was built, would have gone to San Francisco to be naturalized. It was a long trip around the bay and I was told you could be naturalized in ANY court, even a traffic court! So, don't give up, keep looking in all the places you think may be dead ends, sometimes our ancestors are probably laughing at us as we spin our wheels looking for information. Celeste Celeste Perry ccgran...@yahoo.com
On Friday, December 13, 2013 5:09 AM, Mike <mgilfilia...@gmail.com> wrote: I found on ancestry a naturalization record, looks like an index card on a roll-a-dex for my GGgrandfather Antonio Silveira Pereira for Sept 5th, 1901, this date matches exactly what he told in a news paper article about him. It also falls in line with with a passenger list record him, his wife and my great grandmother, for them returning from the Azores May 17th, 1902, on the ship Peninsular for a trip he mentions in the news paper article as well. Everything I have though says he lived in and around the New Bedford, Dartmouth, and Fairhaven area, but the Naturalization shows him becoming a citizen in Providence, RI. My question is, since I can't find any record of his naturalization in Mass, for that time, would he have to take a trip to Providence for naturalization in 1901? Mike -- For 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. To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. -- For 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. To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
