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) >> >

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) >