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

[Jerry Frank]

Excellent idea but don't just jump in and do it.  We first need someone who could coordinate the project.

- assign projects to ensure that efforts are not duplicated
- determine what will be extracted (full info or just indexing; complete families or just heads of household; all people or just Russian origin; etc.)
- establish a standard format so that everyone extracts the same thing and reports it in the same way (as a minimum, I would suggest full name, age, country of origin, ship and date of arrival)

I would further suggest that the format be alphabetical by name rather than by date and ship.  It makes for easier browsing of info.

If we had 33 volunteers, one to coordinate and one for each film, we could get the project done this winter.

 
Jerry Frank




----- Original Message -----
From: gpvjem <gpvjem at sasktel.net>
Date: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 8:35 am
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Immigration from Canada to USA

>    There are 32 pre 1900 films of passenger arrivals in 
> Quebec/Montreal and Halifax that would make an ideal extraction 
> project for an SGGEE volunteer or volunteers.
>    The nice thing about these films, they can be requested for 
> viewing from the Canadian National Archives by local public 
> libraries at no cost, .  I understand that they are also available 
> at Family History Centers and a Canadian provincial archives.  
>    Public libraries are the most user friendly places to view the 
> films because there is no cost involved.and relatively 
> unrestricted hours.   Someone with a laptop could spend quality 
> extraction time without a great deal of travel.
> 
> John Marsch
> ------------------------------
> 
>  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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