----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty Bellous" <bmbellous@sbcglobal.net> To: <polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 3:25 PM Subject: Re: [PBS] Ports of Departure for Lithuanians > The ship Kursk sailed from Libau to Halifax and on to NY Apr-Dec 1914. > Ship > Birma or any variation didn't show up. > > -----Original Message----- > From: polandbordersurnames-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:polandbordersurnames-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of Dorothy > Petraitis > Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 5:58 PM > To: POLANDBORDERSURNAMES@rootsweb.com > Subject: [PBS] Ports of Departure for Lithuanians > > > Can someone help me determine what the most likely ports of departure > would > be for people who departed from Lithuania to the U.S. around the turn of > the > 20th century. > > Both of my in-laws were from the Kaunas area. From what I find in > immigration papers, my father-in-law, Adam Petraitis departed from Libau > (sp?) Lithuania abord the steamship Birma of the Russian-Asiatic Steamship > Company in 1912. He is identified as a subject of Russia. > > My mother-in-law, Adela Dawidowicz, departed Leteau (sp?) on steamship > Kursk of the Russian-American line in January 1913 arrived at Halifax. > > From what I can see on a map of Lithuania, Libau/Leteau - as shown on > their immigration paper - may well be Libau, Latvia, rather than > Lithuania. > > Can anyone point me in the right direction to further this research? > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message