Thanks Cheri, appreciate your help and this group. Colleen
Sent from my iPad > On Aug 3, 2016, at 6:44 PM, Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The Dona Maria sailed into New York on Oct. 1, 1899. That must be your ship > and the date. > > However, that ship picked up people from all 3 Azorean ports before making it > to New York. However, you may be able to find him on Ancestry as only you > know your ancestor's birth date. The ships list will say sailed from Sao > Miguel and list those passengers for a few pages, then say Angra and list > those passengers and so on. So once you find your ancestor, then go to the > CCA and look there. > > If you don't have an Ancestry subscription, your local FHC and public library > have one. It is against Ancestry terms for anyone to look up the stuff for > you and publicly post it. > > Yeah, they wrote what they heard. My ancestor said she came on the Pensailor. > No ship ever existed by that name. I had the date and found the Peninsular. > Also, she said she immigrated under the name of Gloria Correia. She was 13 at > the time of immigration. 50 years later when she's filling out these forms > (well, she couldn't write) her memory as a bit different. And she was not the > one giving her name to the immigration officials. Her 16 year old sister was. > And her 16 year old sister liked using the family alcunha. Her paperwork for > the INS had a big stamp that said UNABLE TO VERIFY. Nope, they could not find > any Gloria Correia coming to New York on that date (but they did figure out > it was the Peninsular). Why would American INS workers in the 1950s even > think that Gloria Correia was the same person as Maria da Gloria Viola? > > Anyways, you're getting close! > > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, > Achada > -- > 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 https://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. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
