VERY GOOD QUESTION! I was able to find my mother's (Bozena Janacek) venture from Mandrsjad, Czechoslovakia via Bremen and Southhampton to Ellis Island on the SS George Washington in 1913 by going to the Naitonal Archives in D.C. However, my father's parents (Ludwig Mynarz and Anna Dzik) who came from Horni Terlicko, Czechoslovakia are believed to have come via Nova Scotia then on to Phillips, Wisconsin. But we don't know if the ship came to Ellis Island, Philadelphia, or direct to Nova Scotia. Records are nonexistent in my research. Woody Minar MINAR/MYNAR/MYNARZ, DZIK/DICK, SKALA, JANACEK ----- Original Message ----- From: <Mrbkdb112@cs.com> To: <CZECH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 9:49 AM Subject: Re: [CZ] Passenger Lists | | | How does one go about finding passenger lists that were prior to 1892, Ellis | Island? | | That is, when you don't have any facts to go on. I know they lived in Pilsen, | and came here in 1867, but that's all I know. I've tried researching on line | but with zero results. I'm beginning to think they swam over. | | Is there a listing in Bohemia where they would have applied to go to the | U.S.? | | Millie...researching Herink,Stepan,Novotny,Vasik,Cherny,Svolba,Vostry | | | ==== CZECH Mailing List ==== | RootsWeb forbids posting of copyrighted material without | permission of the author. Read RootsWeb's Acceptable Use | Policy at http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html. | |