Debbie My grandmother's name at the time was JANINA LAZGIN. As in my prior email, she did not come over alone but family lore is that she was under employ as a nurse or babysitter to another family. Her village name was SIERPC. Thank you for your assistance. Ed On Jun 13, 2012, at 7:55 PM, Debbie Greenlee wrote: > Ed, > > If your grandmother was listed as 13 on the Passenger Arrival Record > then she didn't come over here alone. She was traveling with someone. > Look through the manifest for someone else who left the same village > as your grandmother. > > Do you have the name of the village in which your grandmother was > born? You'll need that in order to "cross the pond" so you can request > her baptismal record or look it up on microfilm if LDS has filmed the > records from that parish for that time period. > > BTW What was your grandmother's name? > > Debbie > > Ed Miller wrote: >> trying different email address... >> >>> Curious as to why this was not posted…Please advise. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> >>> Ed Miller >>> >>> >>> On Jun 9, 2012, at 8:59 PM, Ed Miller wrote: >>> >>>>> I recently obtained a copy of my grandmother's naturalization > petition from the National Archives in NYC. Consistent with family > lore, she came to US at age 13 by herself. This means she entered the > US in 1903. And, the application confirms that she arrived on the > Belgravia from Hamburg on April 8th, 1903. When I checked the ships > manifest on Ancestry (page by page, line by line) I was not able to > find her name. Considering that Ancestry confirms that the Belgravia > arrived in NY on April 8, 1903, does anyone have any idea why her name > would be missing from the manifest. Additional lore is that she came > be herself working as a maid or baby sitter for another family. While > I was looking thru the manifest, I was surprised to see that most of > the passengers were traveling alone (without other family members). > This surprised me. Any suggestions as to where to go next would be > appreciated. >>>> Thank you, >>>> >>>> Ed Miller >>>> (Hit the brick wall) >> > ********************************* > Need to contact the list manager? Write to Marie at Poland-Roots-admin@rootsweb.com > ---------------------------------- > Discussion of Polish food, culture, and customs are welcome on the list as long as the discussion stays pertinent to the topic of this list: researching our Polish roots. > ---------------------------------- > Browse the list's archives here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=poland-roots > Search the list's archives here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?aop=1 > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to POLAND-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message