Could the town name be Baranowka or Bamburowka Jim On Jun 30, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Jane wrote: > I can usually read Polish handwriting fairly well; however, I'm > having trouble with finding my grandmother's home town. > > Salomea Soltys is listed in the Passenger Record at Ellis Island as > having come from Baminoska in Galicia. When I look at the original > ship's manifest, line 6, I really can't make out the name of the > town. It doesn't even look like Baminoska. Plus there's some > handwriting above the town name, and I can't tell if this belongs > to my grandmother's entry or the entry for the line above hers, > line 5. Hopefully someone can help me with this. I am really > stumped. > ********************************* > 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 jimpres1@mac.com

I have no idea, Jim. I'd never heard of it before. I was focusing on the town of Straszydle where my grandmother and grandfather lived until their deaths; however, I remembered that they met and married here in the states, so my grandmother came from somewhere else originally. ----- Original Message ----- From: "JIM Presenkowski" <jimpres1@mac.com> To: <poland-roots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 8:34 AM Subject: Re: [POLAND] Help with Grandmother's Town > Could the town name be Baranowka or Bamburowka > > Jim > > On Jun 30, 2008, at 3:33 PM, Jane wrote: > >> I can usually read Polish handwriting fairly well; however, I'm >> having trouble with finding my grandmother's home town. >> >> Salomea Soltys is listed in the Passenger Record at Ellis Island as >> having come from Baminoska in Galicia. When I look at the original >> ship's manifest, line 6, I really can't make out the name of the >> town. It doesn't even look like Baminoska. Plus there's some >> handwriting above the town name, and I can't tell if this belongs >> to my grandmother's entry or the entry for the line above hers, >> line 5. Hopefully someone can help me with this. I am really >> stumped. >> ********************************* >> 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 > > > jimpres1@mac.com > > > > ********************************* > 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 >