odd, I put the name into ancestry, and it came up with a person of that name on the ancestry message board he is Nikolas Swider drillsandiron@yahoo.com and the messages are at http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/localities.ceeurope.austria.kuestenland/365 >From: Eleanor Ritchie <eritchie@sasktel.net> >Reply-To: IL-CENSUS-LOOKUP-L@rootsweb.com >To: IL-CENSUS-LOOKUP-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [IL-Cen.] lookup >Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:42:42 -0400 > >I received this address from PolandRoots mail list. I am looking for a >grandfather's "where- >abouts" for the years 1904 and prior...I suspect that the 1900 Illinois >census is a long shot >but I need to try it. My grandfather's name is Nikolaj Swider, age 24 in >1900. He changed >his name to Swiderski at some point. He is said to have lived in >Chicago. We have no idea >when he got there, what he did there or where he lived.The "story" we >have been told is that >he came to Canada on a "harvest excursion" on at least two occasions, >the last time in 1904 >when he remained here. Looking forward to any info....eleanor > > > >==== IL-CENSUS-LOOKUP Mailing List ==== >To Unsub from digest mail mode, send the command "unsubscribe" to >IL-CENSUS-LOOKUP-D-request@rootsweb.com > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV, included with MSN Premium! http://join.msn.com/?page=features/mlb&pgmarket=en-us/go/onm00200439ave/direct/01/