Traveling from Flores

[Cheri Mello]

Repost for Laverne Snow, laverne.snow at gmail.com

I took advantage of your link to passports. 

I am looking for my grandmother Ana Laureana Gomes or Ambrosio. She lived on Flores and married my grandfather in Reno, Nevada in May 1907. She would have likely traveled with her brother Joao Caetano Ambrosio. 

I have many questions about the passport process:

What port would she have likely gotten a passport from?

How long before travel would a passport be acquired ?

How long was the voyage?

How long from an East coast port in US to Nevada?

Thank you in advance for any possible assistance.

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Laverne, I'm starting your post over because it's attached to a thread from another island and another time period regarding different people.

The Azores had 4 ports. However, records from 3 ports exist: Ponta Delgada on Sao Miguel, Angra on Terceira, and Horta on Faial. The records for the island of Flores are missing. Joao Ventura, the archivist, has gone over there in search of them and they are missing.

Most people got their passaporte from the local office. However, they could get it from any passaporte office.

It seems most people got their passaporte anywhere from the day before to a couple of months before.

Travel time varies depending on the time period and ship. Steamships took about 2 weeks. Barques took a month. I'm talking to the east coast of America. If one was going to Hawaii, you had to catch the ship from Ponta Delgada on Sao Miguel and sail around the horn. It could take 2 months.

To get from the east coast in America to somewhere inland, such as Nevada, would depend on time period and method of travel. One could take a ship around the horn. One could take a ship to Niaragua, cross over on foot, and then take a ship up the coast. One could go by train. A variety of transportation methods existed.

I'd use the American census records to narrow down the immigration year and then look for them arriving in America. If they naturalized, that's even better.

Cheri Mello
Listowner, Azores-Gen
Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada