Hello, In an application for naturalization the arrival was declared of Sigmund (perhaps Shmuel) TENCER, from Lodz, Poland, in New York on January 15, 1920, on the vessel K.A. Victoria from Danzig. The man would have been born in Lodz in 1901 or 1902. I can't find the vessel nor the arrival. Can someone find it for me? In fact, I have some doubts about these data. It may well be that in fact the arrival was in Canada, around that time. I hope I am not asking too much. Thanks abyway. Jan Bousse, Oostende, Belgium.

At 03:36 PM 2006-07-15 +0200, Jan Bousse wrote: >Hello, > >In an application for naturalization the arrival was declared of Sigmund >(perhaps Shmuel) TENCER, from Lodz, Poland, in New York on January 15, >1920, on the vessel K.A. Victoria from Danzig. The man would have been >born in Lodz in 1901 or 1902. I can't find the vessel nor the arrival. Can >someone find it for me? In fact, I have some doubts about these data. It >may well be that in fact the arrival was in Canada, around that time. I >hope I am not asking too much. > >Thanks abyway. > >Jan Bousse, Oostende, Belgium. Hi Jan, I think it must be the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, but in 1920 she was sailing from Liverpool to New York under charter to Cunard. She had been surrendered to Britain in March 1919. There was a January 10th 1921 New York arrival, but from Liverpool. As we've learned from many list members, the actual year of arrival is the most misremembered part of the date. If he only applied for naturalization, but never actually naturalized, then that could explain why, if they couldn't find him in January 1920 on that ship. If he did leave from Danzig, then he could have taken a feeder-ship to England to embark in Liverpool ? I had a look at Ellis Island partial ship name Kaiserin Aug and first name begins S last name begins T arrival date range 1918-1922 and he didn't pop out. Maybe he was using a last name beginning with "T" or maybe it was mistranscribed as another letter. Unfortunately when I tried to search without the first letter of a last name, the search bogged down, but I was able to grab this one, so it does indicate there were Polish people aboard that Jan 1921 trip from Liverpool First Name: Scholem Last Name: Szer Ethnicity: Poland, Hebrew Last Place of Residence: Lodz, Poland Date of Arrival: Jan 10, 1921 Age at Arrival: 17 Gender: M Marital Status: S Ship of Travel: Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Port of Departure: Liverpool Manifest Line Number: 0022 I use Steve Morse's one-step pages http://www.stevemorse.org/ Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/