Hi all,
Just an update on what I have found so far. I had been focusing my newspaper search to the Santa Cruz County and Stanislaus County areas, using Newspapers.com, Legacy.com and Archives.com . Thank you Cheri for the link to the Portuguese papers archives. Frank Gomes - Santa Cruz County is not able to find his birth certificate….looking under Francis, Francisco or Frank. I was able to obtain original marriage and death certs for him and they only list 'California' as his place of birth. Both of those documents have him listed as Frank Gomes. Everyone in the family says that he was born in Watsonville. So I will try Monterey County and even Stanislaus County, where his siblings were born. Manuel Enos Gomes We are still looking for an exact place of birth for him. I was able to find his death certificate. He was admitted to the Stockton State Hospital in 1940 and died there April 30, 1942. His draft card which has his mark (X) witnessed by someone (dated Sept 12, 1918), shows his date of birth as Oct 4, 1873 but his death certificate shows the date of birth as Sept 4, 1875. The informant listed on his death certificate were both Hospital Records and his son, Frank Gomes.. So we have a difference in the date of birth. He received a consent to marry in 1910 Mary A Brown of Watsonville. They were listed on the 1920 census in Stanislaus County as the head of household and listed coming to the USA in 1906. In the 1930 census of Stanislaus County, he was missing from the household as Mary A Gomes was listed as the head of household. Manuel reappears in the 1940 census as the head of household, living with his son, Frank and Frank's wife, and their daughter, Joann. Then a month later, it looks like he was admitted to Stockton State Hospital. Manuel was listed as divorced on the death certificate. Mary A. Silva Gomes did remarry in the early 1930's to a Jack Silva. I am now going to contact Stanislaus County to see about the divorce records of Manuel and Mary. I was able to get in touch with the California State archives about the stay at the State Hospital. As you all may know, there is a 75 year restriction on accessing medical records in the state archives, based on the date of last contact. So, April 2017 ends the restriction. But they were able to tell me that there was not any mention of a specific place of birth. Whew! Caroline -- 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.
