Samantha, You are not ready to start researching in the Azores. You need to do more work in the U.S. first. It would be similar to someone posting that their ancestors came from America to England, yet they can't even provide the state in America.
There's a whole list of how-to on the Azores GenWeb here: https://goo.gl/xYgVpZ As for the passenger list, it should state which of the 3 ports the ship sailed from. When I search the Azorean passaportes, I start searching there on the date the ship arrived in America (yeah, I know the ship didn't get to America in 1 day, but I don't want to miss them either) and I go back about a couple of months. Good luck, Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Samantha B <samch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all > > I'm building my husband's family tree on ancestry.com. His maternal grand > parents arrived in the US from the Azores in 1908. I have the ship name and > passenger list from Ellis Island but I'm struggling to work out how to get > more information about them from the Azores. > > Currently I'm slowly looking through the passports but I don't even know > how long before sailing they would have registered for passports. I've also > joined http://www.portugueseancestry.com/ as it seems one of the family > trees there has the surnames involved (just waiting on my login details > atm). > > Any other suggestions for research will be most gratefully appreciated. > All I have are the grandparents birth dates (no specific location in the > Azores), US arrival ship and date and US death dates. We've done an > ancestry.com DNA test but, it seems, without more information I can't > really start researching the Azores matches. > > Many thanks > Samantha > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
