California births began in 1905, but they took about 15 years to be in compliance. A variety of CA Birth Indices can be found on the FamilySearch Wiki here: https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/How_to_Find_California_Birth_Records
I'd try the 3rd one. My dad is misindexed and some of the searches don't use Soundex. The 3rd one uses Soundex on the last name (picks up Gomes and Gomez). And if you still don't find him, it probably wasn't filed. If he didn't have one, but received Social Security, he may have filed a Delayed Certificate of Birth in the 1930s. And do as Rosemarie suggested and try for the church baptism. On the one with the date discrepancy, go with the WWI Draft date first. He was the one who gave the info to the Draft board. He did not supply his birth date on the death certificate because he was already dead. His son, who may have been upset at the death, may not have been thinking clearly and goofed. Or really didn't know. But I'd make the WWI Draft his main birth date and keep the other one as secondary until you figure out otherwise. Cheri Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 1:32 PM, 'Caroline Gomes' via Azores Genealogy < azores@googlegroups.com> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
