[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] help searching ship manifests

[Jerry Frank]

For records 1900-1914, go to http://www.sggee.org/public/cdn_passengers/aid_cdn_passengers and read the instructions carefully.  This MIGHT help you to short cut it.

Keep in mind that the person who extracted these lists tried to capture ALL Germans from Russia but he could have missed some.  

My first research when I started this silly hobby almost 20 years ago involved viewing every single ship record in Canadian ports between 1893 and 1900 to try to find my Frank family.  I started in 1894 and worked up to 1900.  I finally found them in 1893.  At least you can work on them from home.  I did it all at the FHC.  :-)


Jerry Frank



----- Original Message -----
From: Barbara Cooper <bdaelick at hotmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:49 am
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] help searching ship manifests

> Hello all!
> 
> As I sit here scrolling through ships manifests on the Canada 
> archives site I wonder if someone might be able to offer me some 
> advice for narrowing down my search?  I have deduced that the 
> family I am looking for arrived in 1901 but that still leaves lots 
> and lots of ships to look through if don't know which port they 
> arrived at.  I also wonder just how badly the manifests can be 
> wrong?  I have come across family groups that include some of the 
> right names and close ages but then something in there will be way 
> off.  Like a married woman listed with what would be her maiden 
> name under the correct parents names but without her husband or 
> her children (I hope that makes sense).  Any guidance would be 
> appreciated or going through all these lists will take forever. 
> 
> Barbara Cooper
> 
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