[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Immigration from Canada to USA

Ron Neuman ron at neuman.ca
Mon Jun 26 23:00:25 PDT 2006


Many Volhynian Germans came to Canada in the 1890's, and I wonder if 
you know of any projects currently underway to index the passenger 
lists for Canadian Ports of Entry prior to 1900?



At 08:53 AM 6/26/2006, Jerry Frank wrote:
>Germans from Russia coming into Canadian ports of Halifax, Quebec, 
>and St. John 1900-1914 were extracted by George Dorscher and are 
>available at http://www.odessa3.org/collections/ships/ .  The bad 
>news is that the entries are by date and ship, not 
>alphabetical.  Because of numerous spelling errors both on the 
>record and by the extractor, some names can be difficult to 
>find.  This means that your browser search device may not find a 
>name once the document is opened.
>
>I recently took the lists and created an alphabetical index of 
>surnames as extracted.  You can browse these lists to find variant 
>spellings and then use that variant to find the name in the 
>extraction.  I hope to have these posted on the SGGEE website before 
>the convention.
>
>I looked through the lists for your person but could find no matches 
>or reasonably alternative spellings.
>
>
>Jerry Frank
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Mike McHenry <maurmike1 at verizon.net>
>Date: Monday, June 26, 2006 8:26 am
>Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Immigration from Canada to USA
>
> > I have been trying to find my grand mother in the immigration
> > databasesellisisland.org, ancestry.com etc for several years with
> > no success. I have
> > done the searches using soundex and wild cards. What I do know is
> > she, age
> > 19, married my grand father on January 1, 1903 in Bristol, CT and
> > had her
> > first child on January 17, 1904 in Bristol. She returned to
> > Russian Poland
> > in 1905 and came back to Connecticut in 1906 this time to New
> > Haven, CT. On
> > the manifest she says she was in Bristol, CT from 1902 to 1905 in
> > answer to
> > the question were you ever in the USA. She died in 1918(influenza)
> > hence I
> > only have her in the US federal census of 1910 with no date. Does
> > anyonethink it's possible or knows of first immigration to Canada
> > and then
> > Connecticut USA? Her maiden name was Auguste Manzei.
> >
> >                                        Mike
> >
> >
> >
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