[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] help searching ship manifests

[Jerry Frank]

Just to clarify, Dave.  George Dorscher extracted all three Canadian ports, not just Halifax.  All are available on the Odessa site.

Dave is right about often having the wrong year.  The reason I started with 1894 is that is when the Franks supposedly arrived.  I worked all the way up to 1900 without finding them.  When I started working backwards, I found them in 1893.  

I do not remember how long it took me to go through all those records but I suppose it must have been in total a couple of years.

Jerry



----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Obee <daveobee at shaw.ca>
Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 12:33 pm
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] help searching ship manifests

> Jerry Frank has suggested the indexes that are already available. 
> If the family does not appear there, then at this point you will 
> need to do the page-by-page work. If it's any consolation, most of 
> us have had to do that.
> 
> If you can wait a bit, more comprehensive indexes are in the works 
> and might be online in a year or so. That might speed things 
> somewhat. If they came through England, be sure to watch 
> ancestorsonboard.com, which covers outbound passengers from 1890 
> through 1899 but will soon be expanded to include later years.
> 
> If you can't wait, does the family appear in the 1901 census? If 
> not, you can assume that they came after the census was taken. 
> Also note that the 1900-1914 index on the Odessa site is for 
> Halifax. If they do not appear in that index, then look at the 
> records from Quebec, which was a busier port, in the summer at 
> least. The idea is to aim for the records that are most likely to 
> help you.
> 
> Beyond that, of course, it's amazing how often people gave the 
> wrong year when asked when they arrived. Be warned.
> 
> Dave Obee
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Barbara Cooper <bdaelick at hotmail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:49 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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