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

[Jerry Frank]

Sorry Ron.  I don't know of any projects underway to index pre1900 
records.  The ideal of course would be an Ellis Island type of index 
so that we could see all entries, not those just claiming to be 
Germans from Russia.


Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca






At 12:00 AM 27/06/2006, Ron Neuman wrote:
>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.
>> >