[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] ancestry.com

[Mike McHenry]

I have paid access to ancestry.com (North America) and would be happy to do
look ups after free period is over.

                                        Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at eclipse.sggee.org
[mailto:ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at eclipse.sggee.org] On Behalf Of Günther
Böhm
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 1:25 PM
Cc: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Passports or Identity Papers

GVLESS at aol.com schrieb:

>I was wondering if my husband's father (who immigrated to U.S. 1903) might

>have had something else besides his Confirmation certificate for
identification 
> when he went through Ellis Island.  We have always assumed this as his
only  
>identity paper as nothing had ever been found in the family's records after

>his  death.  Family story has it he was "escaping" out of Volhynia because
he  
>was of draft age and didn't want to serve in the Russian  military.  His 
>brother, Erdmann who was in the military, and home  on leave also made his
"escape" 
>the year before.  Could these brothers have  arrived here without papers - 
>except for what we know of my husband's Dad having  his Confirmation paper?
So 
>far also I have not been able to locate a  record of immigration for Fred
Less 
>thru Ellis Island either.  A lot of  Less names are there but none of a
Fred 
>(or Friedrich) Less.
>
Hello Virginia,
there is a Friedrich LESS in a ship manifest of passengers arriving in 
Baltimore June 9th, 1903!
You can download it through ancestry.com which is freely accessible 
until November 30th. If you want, I can send it directly as JPEG file.

Guenther


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