Thanks for the offer of help! My Great Grandmother was Paulina Slama. She is listed on the Ellis Island website as coming over in 1913. It lists her father in the record, but I can't tell what it is. My grandfather is alive and well at 85. He does not know his grandfather's name. I hope to get that for him for Christmas this year! If you can help, you will be helping me to take one person off of my list! Thanks again, Matt "Robert Jerin" <rjerin@adelphia.net> wrote in message news:u6xgb.60448$qj6.2393650@news1.news.adelphia.net... > How about allowing some here to look at the manifest? Some of us have > looked at hundreds of ship manifests and have become fairly good at decipher > those old documents. What was his surname, date, ship, etc.? > > I went through the alphabet and found no listings for anyone arr at Ellis > Island whose race was listed as Bohemian nor anyone who was coming from old > Bohemia nor anyone from Czechoslovakia with that first name! The only ones > appeared to be from Syria, Turkey or of Hebrew race. So you must have a > ship manifest for him arr at another port of entry? > > Robert Jerin > Croatian Heritage Museum > Cleveland Ohio > > "Matthew Johnson" <matt@thosejohnsons.com> wrote in message > news:jqpgb.12144$%C5.8750@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com... > > I was looking into my Great Grandfather, and on a ship manifest it looks > > like it is spelled "Mour". Is that a Czech first name? > > > > > > Matt > > > > > >

Matthew Johnson wrote: > > Thanks for the offer of help! My Great Grandmother was Paulina Slama. She > is listed on the Ellis Island website as coming over in 1913. It lists her > father in the record, but I can't tell what it is. > > My grandfather is alive and well at 85. He does not know his grandfather's > name. I hope to get that for him for Christmas this year! If you can help, > you will be helping me to take one person off of my list! > > Thanks again, > > Matt Matt, Ellis Island Records (EIR) listed 129 surnames Slama who had emigrated from many countries; Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Czech-Bohemia (Moravia), Czechoslovakia, and even Polish Galicia. In 1913 your great GM Paulina went to Chicago IL to her aunt Marija Frantal's address. Marija is a South Slavic female first name, while Frantal is a Czech-Bohemian surname (West Slavic) Expect this was the aunt's married name not her maiden name, which perhap was also Slama. Plenty of Czech-Bohemians lived in Chicago before WW I. There were many surname Slama bearers born in the 1890s who had also lived in Chicago Cook CO IL. But, in what country they were born is another matter ? > "Robert Jerin" <rjerin@adelphia.net> wrote in message > news:u6xgb.60448$qj6.2393650@news1.news.adelphia.net... > > How about allowing some here to look at the manifest? Some of us have > > looked at hundreds of ship manifests and have become fairly good at > decipher > > those old documents. What was his surname, date, ship, etc.? > > > > I went through the alphabet and found no listings for anyone arr at Ellis > > Island whose race was listed as Bohemian nor anyone who was coming from > old > > Bohemia nor anyone from Czechoslovakia with that first name! The only > ones > > appeared to be from Syria, Turkey or of Hebrew race. So you must have a > > ship manifest for him arr at another port of entry? > > > > Robert Jerin > > Croatian Heritage Museum > > Cleveland Ohio > > > > "Matthew Johnson" <matt@thosejohnsons.com> wrote in message > > news:jqpgb.12144$%C5.8750@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com... > > > I was looking into my Great Grandfather, and on a ship manifest it looks > > > like it is spelled "Mour". Is that a Czech first name? > > > > > > > > > Matt > > > > > > > > > >