I'm only writing this to the list to make sure that somewhere in the vast Internet vaults of lost information, someone might stumble onto this tidbit of information. A search for a Polish woman at the EIDB site turned up: Rosalia JORDAN Look at the manifest and her surname is barely readable. Knowing nearly all the family names from the town she came from, I recognize the name as really being BOGDAN. How will anybody ever be able to find her? And I know there are some BOGDAN's in the Cleveland area. So I've written to the Cuyahoga list just so that maybe a Bogdan will eventually find this in the archive. Sandy
Hi Sandy, Yes there are many issues with the transcribed database, mis-spellings as you found, cases where the given name is listed in the database as the surname, etc... It is fairly obvious the name is not jordan! the only letter that appears to be in question is the B, however look at the other writing of the manifest author and it is evident it is B. BOGDAN is a patronymic category surname, derived from the male given name Bogdan (bohgdahn). Translated it means "gift from God", English equivelant could be Theodore. Perhaps you know about Dr Stephen Morse Ellis Island "One Step" search page. For over a year now I have never used the "regular" Ellis Is page. Dr Morse allows so many variations of ways to search that it is THE best place to search. I realize the EI site has improved but Dr Morse is still better. One of the neat features is searching by entering a town name ONLY! When you search Dobrynin you find 54 immigrant arrivals inc Rosalia JORDAN! To use this feature go to the web page below and select SHORT FORM (gray) http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/ellis.html Robert Jerin Croatian Heritage Museum Eastlake Ohio http://www.croatia-in-english.com/rj/ Sandy Rozhon <srozhon@comcast.net> wrote: I'm only writing this to the list to make sure that somewhere in the vast Internet vaults of lost information, someone might stumble onto this tidbit of information. A search for a Polish woman at the EIDB site turned up: Rosalia JORDAN Look at the manifest and her surname is barely readable. Knowing nearly all the family names from the town she came from, I recognize the name as really being BOGDAN. How will anybody ever be able to find her? And I know there are some BOGDAN's in the Cleveland area. So I've written to the Cuyahoga list just so that maybe a Bogdan will eventually find this in the archive. Sandy ==== OHCUYAHO Mailing List ==== Register your surnames and queries at (http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohcuyaho/cuyaoh.htm) ============================== 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