I don't have any suggestions on finding info on sponsors...it's an interesting thought, though. My great-grandparents sponsored many people, I think they'd live in the basement of their house. There are never any around at census time, but I was often curious who the people were and where they came from. My great-grandparents lived in Hamtramck, MI. Is there someplace to find out more about the sponsorship process. I 've never looked, so forgive the question if it's got an obvious answer!! : ) Elise ____________________________________________________________ Click to learn about options trading and get the latest information. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3m5biUGIIh820a4ZryVDf43v2g4Zfo6tAseaJfeSwIpSCEcu/

Elise, I have found a lot of sponsors on certain ships records. Often, a non- citizen would have to list a friend with an address who was, presumably, going to keep them from being a vagrant ... in other words, a sponsor. Also, in census records, if you find your relative, look to see if this person was the head of the household. if they were single or without their family, they most likely would have been staying with friends/sponsors or in a boarding house (less likely). I found my grandfather Bognacki and his brother in a census as teenagers (young men in those times!) living with an uncle in New York (I knew that) and it actually had the address. I learned from this that my grandfather must have learned his trade (butcher) from his uncle because that was his profession when he lived there. Remember to always read ALL of the census info! On some ships records, I guess often with women traveling alone, the last column listed next of kin and their address in Poland. I learned from this, which matched up to the next passenger's record, that they must have been traveling together ... they were single teenage girls... since the next of kin were the only two from the same town. Also, remember that when looking for people in poland on passenger lists, that COUNTRY of origin could have been Russia or Germany, with their ETHNICITY Polish. Once I broke that code, I found a lot of records. Remember Poland wasn't actually a nation in the early 1900s. Hope this helps, Tiffany On Jul 21, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Elise Urbaniak wrote: > I don't have any suggestions on finding info on sponsors...it's an > interesting thought, though. My great-grandparents sponsored many > people, I > think they'd live in the basement of their house. There are never any > around at census time, but I was often curious who the people were > and where > they came from. My great-grandparents lived in Hamtramck, MI. Is > there > someplace to find out more about the sponsorship process. I 've never > looked, so forgive the question if it's got an obvious answer!! : ) > > Elise > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Click to learn about options trading and get the latest information. > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/ > Ioyw6i3m5biUGIIh820a4ZryVDf43v2g4Zfo6tAseaJfeSwIpSCEcu/ > ********************************* > 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