[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Questions to Everybody

[Carolyn Schott]

In answer to the question "How did I figure out how my ancestors got here" -
I found mine a couple of different ways.

1.  For my grandfather, his "Declaration of Intent" to become a citizen
shows the U.S. port he arrived at and the ship line he was on, and month of
arrival.  From that I was able to find the passenger list, find that the
ship had departed from Bremen, so can pretty much guess at his travel route.

2.  For several of my other lines that came from Bessarabia, I used the book
edited by Ira A. Glazier, "Migration from the Russian Empire; Lists of
Passengers Arriving at US Ports."  That was especially interesting because I
found that my g-g-grandfather apparently came to the U.S. but I have no idea
where he ended up.  He's not listed in the church records or buried in the
cemetary near Kulm, ND where my g-grandparents are.  So they must have gone
their separate ways once they got to the U.S.

Carolyn





>Message: 4
>Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 00:17:04 -0300
>From: "Eduardo Kommers" <chiquinhok at terra.com.br>
>Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia]  QUESTIONS TO EVERYBODY
>To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
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>Hello everybody!
>
>Some time ago I made a question here about "how our ancestors 
>left Volhynia 
>and came to Americas (including South America)".
>I'm a little confused because my ancestors embarked in 
>Marseille, France, in 
>1897, and came to Brazil. It's not logical for me. See the world maps.
>
>The history of the germans from Volhynia says a grand part of 
>them went back 
>to Germany before going to USA, Canada, Brazil, etc.
>I suposed in this way the german families just had to go down 
>to the south 
>... 'cause Marseille is not too far away from Germany. Is it a 
>possiblity?
>Is there anybody on the same situation or with the same history?
>
>A question to everybody who lives in Canada or USA: Do you 
>know in what port 
>did your relatives embark? How did you get this information?
>And a question to everybody: are there records about germans 
>who went back 
>to Germany from Volhynia in 1880' and 1890'?
>
>Best regards
>
>Eduardo Kommers