What are their names???? A Noni Moose wrote: > I have used the Ellis Island website to track my grandparents' entry > into the US. My grandfather made three entries from Switzerland: > > 16 August 1890: Ellis Island records do not go back this far, but, > he listed this date on his application for citizenship as the first > date he entered the US, and, I have the original of his steamship > ticket for this trip. > > June 1897 and October 1910: He shows up in the Ellis Island records > on ship manifests entering the US on these dates. In October 1910 > he was accompanied by my grandmother. > > Now -- is there any way to track his RETURN trips to Switzerland? Unless he got a passport, no > FIRST TRIP: He entered the US in 1890 and again in 1897, so, he > must have gone back to Switzerland at some time in the intervening > seven years. I have no record of his activity for this seven-year > period. > > SECOND TRIP: He entered the US in 1897 and again in 1910. I have a > small notebook that he kept as a diary between September 1903 and > July 1910 but his entries are sporadic. He did, however, note with > each entry where he was located at the time. Entries in this > notebook up to August 1908 are made in the US; beginning in > September 1908 the entries are in Switzerland -- so -- I know he > traveled from the US to Switzerland sometime in August - September > 1908, possibly as early as 6 August 1908. > > "A Noni Moose" <anon@moose.net>

bob gillis wrote: > What are their names???? > > A Noni Moose wrote: > > > I have used the Ellis Island website to track my grandparents' entry > > into the US. My grandfather made three entries from Switzerland: > > > > 16 August 1890: Ellis Island records do not go back this far, but, > > he listed this date on his application for citizenship as the first > > date he entered the US, and, I have the original of his steamship > > ticket for this trip. > > > > June 1897 and October 1910: He shows up in the Ellis Island records > > on ship manifests entering the US on these dates. In October 1910 > > he was accompanied by my grandmother. > > > > Now -- is there any way to track his RETURN trips to Switzerland? > > Unless he got a passport, no Even then, it'll just tell you where he MEANT to visit. I'd say, unless the Swiss kept track of who entered Switzerland, tracking the trips back-and-forth may not be possible. OTOH, unless he lived in NYC or some equally large town, his local newspaper might have reported on it, when he left, while he was gone, or when he got back. All three would be lagniappe, but one can hope! Cheryl singhals <singhals@erols.com>