[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Passports or Identity Papers

[Rose Ingram]

Virginia,

I look at the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild website at 
http://www.immigrantships.net/
The volunteers have extracted names from the "Batavia" from Hamburg, Germany 
to New York, 24 August 1906, under the German Departs webpage.  The 
passengers named here are also in the Immigration Records on Ancestry.com 
and The Ellis Island website.

It is possible that the Passenger list of the May 1903 manifest of the 
Batavia may have been difficult to read (faint ink) thus not indexed.

Rose Ingram

From: <GVLESS at aol.com>


> 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!!!
>