Hi Lauraine, I just saw a news report on TV this week about how fishermen in Japan (?) are "getting away with murder" - because they continue to kill whales. They are giving the "excuse" that they need the whale carcasses for "research" and that is allowed. It's sort of off-topic for this List, but my husband's great-grandfather was reportedly a Whaler. He was Francisco MOURA from 1800's on the Azores (islands). There are books about the Azorean whalers - both adult and children's books. They traveled all over the world to catch whales. And just a reminder that the "Portuguese" were very important in the early history of the world. And, initially, Azoreans were coming to New England or Canada, and perhaps earlier the Hawaiian Islands and then California, etc. The Azores are beautiful, I'm told, but there weren't too many ways to make a living there. Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) List Administrator FYI: I can't find out what happened to Francisco MOURA. But, I have my suspicions. His 2 daughters arrived in MA/US ~1905 at ~12 to become "indentured servants" in Boston. Their mother and youngest sister and 2 brothers arrived ~1910. I can find no mention of the father arriving in MA. There were MOURA families in Brooklyn, NY, around 1900, and I suspect that "Frank" MOURA went there - instead of to Cambridge, MA, where his wife and children went. (One son moved to Brooklyn after he married.) FYI: My (new) husband always believed that he was half-Portuguese and half-Irish. I just found out a few weeks ago that his grandmother was born in London, England, instead, and her father was born in Scotland. But, her mother might have been born in Ireland. (And, instead of being Annie McLAUGHLIN, she was Annie McLOUGHLIN, born in London. And she seems to have been one of 6 or 7 sisters.)