My understanding is that most people left from Libau, Latvia, but I have seen many leave from all the other major ports like Bremen, Hamburg and Antwerp, etc. Have you tried the Ellis Island site and Ancestry.com? Tina Ellis At 02:58 PM 5/6/2007 -0700, you wrote: >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