http://www.archives.gov/research/military/genealogy.html -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maisie Egger Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2013 2:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Lanark] Where is Jack Surmann ca 1908? Can anyone advise me where I might be able to find a list of crew members on the battleship SS Ohio, around 1908, which was part of Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet? I did contact some U.S. navy "office" one time but received no reply. I realise that this is not germane to the Lanark list, but any port in a storm...so to speak! My husband's father, Pop, Anton Joseph Egger, served as a sailor on the "SS Ohio" for about four years. He had mentioned that he had had a "fight" with a John (Jack) Surmann who told him they shouldn't be "fighting" as they were cousins. Pop's mother was Veronica Surmann, but we've never been able to find out if she had a brother who might also have moved to America from Austria in the 1880-1890s. I've never been able to find this John (Jack) Surmann...he may have been living in New Jersey or New York, but not Chicago, Illinois, where Pop grew up after coming to America from Austria when he'd be about five years old 1890. Fast forward: My husband, youngest of Anton Joseph Egger's children, also was a sailor 1950-1954 on the aircraft carrier USS FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt). If the ship had not docked on the Clyde for repairs in 1952, I would never have met him...me, a shy wee lassie from Glasgow, LANARKSHIRE...so there's the weak link of two/three American sailors to this Lanark list! The SS Ohio did not sail to Europe on Pop's watch, but he "forever" spoke of how impressed he was when the ship sailed into Sydney harbour as he considered it to be the most beautiful harbour he'd been to. Pop met a fellow there with nine sisters who wanted him to jump ship (and marry one!), as well as the fact that he was an electrician whose skills were in demand in Australia in those years. He declined! Again, if he'd gone awol, there would have been no Joseph Anton Egger, my dearly beloved, and I, a Glaswegian, would not be trying to trace this elusive "cousin," Jack Surmann more than 100 years later through this Lanark list of people such as Nivard Ovington who is so well-versed in so many facets of genealogy. Maisie ------------------------------- WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier message. Be sure the reply to address shows as [email protected] You may contact the List Admin at [email protected] or click on the following link to the list information page online: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message