Hi Colleen/Steve, The information from the passaportes are not on the date they set sail.
How soon did they register before sailing? When they felt like it. I don't know if the passaportes expired or not. Most of the ancestors seemed to register within a couple of months from sailing. Lots of factors are at play here. Where did the ancestor live and which port would they set sail from? Even that could go a couple of ways. If the port was not on their island, one family member could have gone early to register the whole family. Then again, if it was quite a ways, maybe they all showed up the day before. If I find my ancestor arriving, I go to the passaportes and start looking on the arrival date working my way back. I know it was a boat and there's no way the boat made it in one day. But I don't know when they registered and I don't want to miss them, so I start of the arrival date and work my way back until I find them. Cheri -- 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. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
