[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Re: Leaving Volhynia for USA

[Carolpauly at aol.com]

Our grandfather, Frederich Johann Weich, was born in Peresolup, served in the 
Russian army fighting the Turks.  He came home on leave saying he could not 
stand anymore bloodshed. Grandmother packed his clothes and he left for the USA 
in 1888.   He didn't seem to have any trouble but of course he was AWOL.  
Grandmother sold their farm, paying someone to get her, her three children and 
her elderly mother, safely across the border.  We have never heard of the Jewish 
underground, have no idea how she got to Hamburg.   She  sailed on the SS 
City of New York  from Hamburg to Liverpool, England and then on to the USA.  
Records show that almost all the ships leaving Hamburg stopped at Liverpool 
before coming to New York. 

Is Bob Fandrich correct that there was no  problem getting out of Russia at 
that time or might it have been because her husband was AWOL that she had to 
travel in secrecy.   

Found his passage to the USA easily but not hers.  Finally found someone who 
had the book Germans to America and they found it for me.

These stories are really interesting as I had always assumed my grandparents 
story to be unique.

Carol