[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] post wwi immigration

[Gary Warner]

Rhonda,

Why are you looking only at the Canadian ports?   It was not unusual for 
Canada bound passengers to land first in the USA, often in Portland, 
Maine, but also in other ports in the northeast USA.

Gary Warner

gary and rhonda simpson wrote:
> I guess I was a little vague.  They were from Volhynia, Zhitomir area.  They 
> had to have arrived prior to July of 1920 due to the birth of a son in 
> Canada in August 1921.  The father came over in 1914 by himself.  His wife 
> died sometime after that in the old country and the children came over with 
> a 'relative female" of his late wife who ended up marrying him.  Can't find 
> the marriage record here either so that was a dead end on when they may have 
> come over also.
>
> I have checked all the 1914 and 1915 arrivals in Canada from all German, 
> Dutch, and Belgium ports to no avail and there doesn't seem to be any in the 
> years 1916, 1917 or 1918 other than England, and I have checked all those to 
> 1921.
>
> Rhonda 
>
>
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