For 1890 to about 1930, the period of records I have inspected, from Austria-Hungary, the answer is the woman's name at time of arrival is the only name stated. No middle names, no aliases. If married, married surname. If single, maiden surname. Just about every head that travelled on board had to be accounted for and document, including the crew. This even applies to stow-aways and people later deported. You will see some entries "lined out" in the manifest. In most cases, they didn't board the ship at departure for reason not explained on the manifest. What most people find is that their surname was badly mispelled on the manifests for various reasons. Look for phonetic matches. Look for poor transcription (a=o=e, f=s, R=K, etc.) Look for other people with that surname and from that village, see who they went to stay with. Then look up those peoples names. For each person, scan the surrounding manifest pages for others from that village. Oft times friends from the same village travelled together or went to stay with others from the same village. You might find them indirectly. It could take months for you to trudge thru the ellis island records to find the match this way, but there is no easier way. The ellislisland site is a treasure trove waiting to be tapped. Put on your detective cap. Good things in life don't come easy. Be persistent & I wish you good luck, Bill Tarkulich -----Original Message----- From: Dusan Sloboda [mailto:dsloboda@mbox.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:31 AM To: SLOVAKIA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: women and maiden names Two of my Great-Grand Aunts migrated to the US probably shortly after WWI. They were both married at this stage as far as I know, in Slovakia, most probably in Hlohovec. Problem is I'm still trying to find out who they were married to via correspondence with archives in Slovakia. The question I have is weather or not the maiden name of women who migrated to the US with their husbands would have been recorded at all in ship records or any other records for that matter. Any help on this subject would be appreciated. Thank you Dusan --------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW to mBox, receive faxes to any email address! Find out more http://www.mbox.com.au/fax ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237