Has anyone else found that sometimes the ages on the ship's manifest are quite different than what the ages really were of the immigrants? Does anyone know if this would have made a difference on the cost of the trip? Were there cut-off dates for charges for certain ages? Did they get one price for the whole family? Could Kathy's Joseph Podgurski given his age as younger to save some of the passage money? Now this is telling on my dear mother, but when we rode the 'BUG' (train) to Lincoln, we suddenly became a bit younger especially at about age 5 because small children rode for less. This also happened on a trip on the bus; getting into a movie, etc. diaNE On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:17:11 GMT "[email protected]" <[email protected]> writes: > > Monica.............that is what it looked like to me too, except > the state part was a bit jumbled, and I did read the given name as > Stanislaus but it too was more scribbly. The person who wrote it had > good handwriting otherwise. Now the mystery! My grandpa had a > brother Joseph alright, but he was born in 1886 along with a twin, > Andrew. (great grandpa's name) So, he would have been about 21. This > lad was 16. KathyB