List - Can anyone help me decipher some handwriting on a steamship Passenger List? My ancestors are surnamed TYSSOWSKI (or TYSOWSKI) and they originally came from Galicia. I came across this name while looking at Passenger Lists on Ancestry.com.: Katarzyna (or, Katarcyna?) Tyssowska was a passenger on a ship from Bremen arriving in NY in 1907; she was age 16 (b. abt. 1891), b. in "Reysko" (sp?), Ethnicity/Race: "Ruthenian" (which makes sense if I understand the term correctly), Last Permanent Residence: "H_jsko"(??), Galicia. It is stated that she was going to join a "brother" at an address in "Wilmington, Delaware". (Of a similar spelling to the place "Reysko", the surname "Rysko" seems to be relatively common in Ukraine but I don't know if there might also be a town or place of the same name). Does anyone recognize these Galicia place names or know their exact locations? Are they in SE Poland, or in what is now Ukraine? I can't find any other record of her (e.g. 1910 US Census, etc,) nor can I find any record of the "brother" named Tyssowski she was supposed to be joining in Delaware. There are many Tyssowskis living in Washington, D.C., in 1910, and all of them, as far as I can tell, are relatives we know about, and all of them are descended from or related to my g.g.grandparents, Jan Tyssowski & Antoinette Lenska, and their 7 children. Jan's father, Jozef Tysowski (1779-1820), was supposedly from Lwow, Ukraine, and records indicate that many of the Tyssowskis, including Jan, spent time in that area as well as in Krakow and Tarnow, Poland, where Jan Tyssowski was born in 1811 - he and his family immigrated to the US in 1848. As far as we know, the name TYSSOWSKI is not very common in Poland or, for that matter, in Ukraine either. Therefore, we are hoping that information about this person may yield a clue about where in Galicia the line may have originated. I would be happy to forward an image of the passenger list record (or you can look it up on ancestry.com) if anyone would like to try to help us decipher the handwriting and/or to figure out who this Katar_yna Tyssowska was and where, exactly, she came from. We have been researching the Tyssowski line for several years (but not, unfortunately, in Ukraine) and have compiled extensive data about the large extended family of descendants in the US but we have never heard of anyone with the given name of Katarzyna, Katarcyna, or Kathryn/Catherine. I don't know if it's possible to attach the passenger list record here, so please contact me off-list directly: paco@gbis.com I would appreciate any help that might be offered! Frank J. Researching: TYSSOWSKI (TYSOWSKI), L~E~SKA, PACIORKOWSKA

Here is the link to the Ellis Island record for Katarzyna Tyssowska arrival in 1907 for those who wish to help. http://www.ellisisland.org/search/shipManifest.asp?pID=102007010656 In addition to Ancestry, Ellis Island records can be searched using this search engine: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/ellis.html The numbers appearing on the entry for Katarzyna are the number of her naturalization papers, explained here: http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/Manifests/occ/ Regards, Mary Frank Johnson wrote: > List - > > Can anyone help me decipher some handwriting on a steamship Passenger List? > > My ancestors are surnamed TYSSOWSKI (or TYSOWSKI) and they originally came from Galicia. > > I came across this name while looking at Passenger Lists on Ancestry.com.: Katarzyna (or, Katarcyna?) Tyssowska was a passenger on a ship from Bremen arriving in NY in 1907; she was age 16 (b. abt. 1891), b. in "Reysko" (sp?), Ethnicity/Race: "Ruthenian" (which makes sense if I understand the term correctly), Last Permanent Residence: "H_jsko"(??), Galicia. It is stated that she was going to join a "brother" at an address in "Wilmington, Delaware". (Of a similar spelling to the place "Reysko", the surname "Rysko" seems to be relatively common in Ukraine but I don't know if there might also be a town or place of the same name). > > Does anyone recognize these Galicia place names or know their exact locations? Are they in SE Poland, or in what is now Ukraine? > > I can't find any other record of her (e.g. 1910 US Census, etc,) nor can I find any record of the "brother" named Tyssowski she was supposed to be joining in Delaware. There are many Tyssowskis living in Washington, D.C., in 1910, and all of them, as far as I can tell, are relatives we know about, and all of them are descended from or related to my g.g.grandparents, Jan Tyssowski & Antoinette Lenska, and their 7 children. Jan's father, Jozef Tysowski (1779-1820), was supposedly from Lwow, Ukraine, and records indicate that many of the Tyssowskis, including Jan, spent time in that area as well as in Krakow and Tarnow, Poland, where Jan Tyssowski was born in 1811 - he and his family immigrated to the US in 1848. > > As far as we know, the name TYSSOWSKI is not very common in Poland or, for that matter, in Ukraine either. Therefore, we are hoping that information about this person may yield a clue about where in Galicia the line may have originated. > > I would be happy to forward an image of the passenger list record (or you can look it up on ancestry.com) if anyone would like to try to help us decipher the handwriting and/or to figure out who this Katar_yna Tyssowska was and where, exactly, she came from. We have been researching the Tyssowski line for several years (but not, unfortunately, in Ukraine) and have compiled extensive data about the large extended family of descendants in the US but we have never heard of anyone with the given name of Katarzyna, Katarcyna, or Kathryn/Catherine. > > I don't know if it's possible to attach the passenger list record here, so please contact me off-list directly: paco@gbis.com I would appreciate any help that might be offered! > > Frank J. > > Researching: TYSSOWSKI (TYSOWSKI), L~E~SKA, PACIORKOWSKA > >