[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Passports or Identity Papers

[Gary Warner]

Virginia,

There are only 808 Less names in the entire USA in 1910, and only 9 
of those are named Fred or something similar.

Gary Warner


At 04:35 PM 11/21/06, GVLESS at aol.com wrote:
>Oops, made a mistake.  The arrival date for Freidrich Less on his
>naturalization paper for coming to the U.S.A should be the year 
>1903, not  1902.  It was
>1902 that his brother Erdmann arrived in Halifax.  The  name of Freidrich
>could be listed on some Ancestry file as Fred but I tried that  as 
>well and so
>far no luck.  The name of Less has been noted on the  Ancestry 
>immigration files
>from Ellis Island about 80+ times so is not an  unusual surname.  I also have
>tried some variations as well.  So -  maybe the "Port of NY" as mentioned on
>the naturalization papers does not mean  Ellis Island.  Was there 
>another port
>in New York??
>Well, whatever advise you all have will be fine.  I've tried several  times
>with the Ellis Island website as well as recently the Ancestry 
>site.   Did try
>to take advantage of their "free" time with them.  Maybe I just  didn't do it
>right. Or something.......
>
>Oh well, thanks all of you with your ideas/attempts.  Maybe some day
>something will show up.
>
>Virginia Less
>
>P.S.  Then the question I have would it be possible Fred/Freidrich  arrived
>here without an "identity paper" only had with him his 
>Confirmation  paper, or
>would that have been impossible??   Why or why we didn't  question 
>him when he
>was still with us!!!
>
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