[AZORES-Genealogy] Bravo da Rosa

Hi everyone, I'm brand new to the group and I'm hoping that someone can help me track down information about some ancestors. My great-great grandfather, Frank Rose Bravo, was born in the Azores Islands in about 1858 or 1859. He came to the US in (I think) about 1878, moved to California, and

Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Bravo da Rosa

Kim G, de la is Spanish, not Portuguese. da Rosa is Portuguese. Joseph is Jose and Constance is Constancia in Portuguese. Just knowing Faial or Sao Miguel is not enough. It's like saying California or New York and there is no statewide index or Ancestry to help. You have to have the island