[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Passports or Identity Papers

[Mike McHenry]

I did searches at stevemorse.org using only the starting letters of the
first name possibilities FRIED AND FRED and limiting it to the Batavia and
1903. This is Morse's white form. It takes a while for the search! I came up
with nothing remotely close to Less. I have used this technique before with
some success. I'm very suspicious of the completeness of the EI database. In
1902 I know there are several weeks of ships missing. In the case of the
Batavia  of June 8, 1903 there is no listing of detained persons as you
usually find at the beginning or end of the manifest. I think it is
incomplete.

                                        Mike

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at eclipse.sggee.org] On Behalf Of Paul
Rakow
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 12:01 PM
To: Rose Ingram
Cc: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Passports or Identity Papers


 Rose, 
    
    I did a search in the (currently) free ancestry.com database, 
 using arrival year 1903, ship name Batavia, and then looked at the 
 results that best matched a departure date of 25 May. 

    The passenger list has 3 or 4 pages of passengers from Boulogne,
 and 110 or so pages from Hamburg, but I've seen some web sites that
 only seem to mention Boulogne. 

       Paul Rakow 
       rakow at ifh.de

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Rose Ingram wrote:

> Paul, where did you find the information about the Batavia sailing and
> arriving in 1903?
> 
> Rose Ingram
> ------
> From: "Paul Rakow"
> 
> >  Virginia,
> >
> >      Since you said that the year was 1903, not 1902, the ship
> > "Bataviga" in the naturalisation papers must be the Batavia,
> > sailed 25 May 1903 from Hamburg, arrived 8 June 1903 in NY.
> >

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