sean creney wrote: > Marie, could I ask the source you looked at, does it give more > information then what I probably saw on Ellisisland.org? Sean, I have a subscription to ancestry.com, which is where I viewed the manifest (both pages). They're images of the same manifests as on ellisisland.org. -Marie

> I now know, he married a Mary Boruc/Boruk/Borek/Boruch. all of the children of Stanislaw and Mary have passed on , and we have no way to know the spelling. Sean, Don't get too worried about "the correct spelling," the only correct spelling would not be in English, all we have in the US records would be what someone said or wrote down based on what the name sounded like. When searching, we just have to hope the sites we use have liberal wild card and soundex options. And add Boruck to your list, a "ch" or "k" at the end of a surname can also be spelled "ck" in the US. I have been studying my Barusch family that came here, so consider Borush as well. Less likely to appear as the sound is different, but one never knows what the clerks may have recorded. Also you could find records filed as Barack, Baruch, etc. if someone misread the first vowel when a record was indexed.