Chris, Polish Dragon did in fact tell you something you didn't know. "Travel? Any way you can imagine. If diplomatic employers, a more direct route" Personally, I don't think your statement, "in or about 1915" and your later statement, "I was referring to the end of 1914 or, more likely, 1916" was very clear and PD's response, "around 1915 might have meant 1914 before the war!" was within reason I think. Warsaw and Krakow are very large cities and, in 1914-1999 were also the names of wojewo~dztwo (provinces). Most people who left Poland did not live _in_ the cities but in the wojewo~dztwo. The wojewo~dztwo were large areas. In order to find records in Poland, you need to know the village, not just the wojewo~dztwo. The church is the first place to look for records. Actually, the first place to look is LDS (Mormons) films: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localitysearch&columns=*,0,0 Keep in mind that most of the records filmed by LDS are parish records so it isn't enough to just know the birth village, you'll also need to know the parish for that birth village. This list might be able to help you locate the parish once you know the village. (The church is the second place to look.) As someone else mentioned the Passenger Arrival Records should have the immigrant's last place of residence (village) and/or birth village name. Debbie PolishDragon@att.net wrote: > > -------------- Original message from Csgen50@aol.com: -------------- > >> A relative of ours left Poland and migrated to England in or about 1915. As >> this was during the time of WW1 I would be interested to hear by what route >> they might have travelled. Marie would only have been about 17 years of age herself and no other member of her family travelled with her. However, she >> might > possibly have travelled with a family with whom she was employed 'in >> service' at the time. >> >> Her name was Marie Pizlock but it possible that her name might have been >> anglicized to this version from something sounding rather more Polish. >> >> In addition I would like to ask how I would go about trying to trace a birth >> record for Marie. We believe that she may have originated from Warsaw or >> Krakow. > > Chris: Is she the Marie Pizlock married to Silas Page in 1923? Got her marriage record both civil and church? (oops! just remembered--UK civil IS church.)Warsaw or Krakow is not going to be of any help. You need a narrower focus! > Travel? Any way you can imagine. If diplomatic employers, a more direct route and around 1915 might have meant 1914 before the war! Ancestry has UK INCOMING passenger lists online. I don't see her, but she may have been listed as "Lady Gotrock's maid". <g> There are numerous maids, valets, butlers, nannies who will be forever nameless. > PolishDragon@att.net > >